After September 11, 2001, U.S. officials authorized the cruel treatment and torture of prisoners held in Afghanistan, Iraq, Guantanamo, and the CIA's secret prisons overseas.

This database documents the U.S. government's official experiment with torture. At present, the database contains well over 100,000 pages of government documents obtained primarily through Freedom of Information Act litigation and requests filed by the ACLU, and through litigation of Salim v. Mitchell, a lawsuit brought by the ACLU on behalf of the survivors and the family of a dead victim of the CIA torture program. To learn more about the database, please read the About and Search Help pages. If you're a developer, you can also access this data through our API.

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May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 663

Interview intended to "clarify possibly conflicting statements concerning detainees being stripped naked and held in cells in the 1A area." Stated that stripping detainees "might have been an interrogation tactic that could ...

Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Ricardo Sanchez, George R. Fay
Nudity, Other Humiliation, Other
May 28, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 728
Interviewee was assigned to AG as an Assistant with the 325th Military Intelligence Brigade. Stated: "There was an extraordinary amount of pressure from the chain of command to get results. . . . They would raid a house and take everyone. They ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Steven Boltz, Barbara G. Fast, Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Walter Wojdakowski, Colonel Summers
Other
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 786
Interviewee was interviewed via phone in order to clarify details from her May 21, 2004 sworn statement. Interviewee stated she did not personally see any nude detainees in AG.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Transcript)
Nudity
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 860
Interviewee "invoked HIS right under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and declined to make any further statements to Investigating Officers." [Memo redacted]
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 907
Interviewee was assigned to AG in October 2003 as a member of the Tiger Team. Interviewee recalled an interrogation where a member of the interrogation team was among those attacked/injured in an earlier mortar attack believed to be perpetrated ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller, George R. Fay
Physical assault, General, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
May 28, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1187
Emails between Army Officers concerning various issues surrounding detainees and their detention, including deaths and off-base investigations. There are numerous attachments to the emails. Mostly redacted.
May 16, 2005
Email
Donald J. Ryder
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1571
An Army questionnaire, including thirty-two questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The Lieutenant Colonel responded ...
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1828
Email from DOD to DOD reminding officials to refrain from abusing and mistreating detainees.
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1836
Email from DOD to DOD reminding officials to refrain from abusing and mistreating detainees.
May 28, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1987
Attaches document entitled "grave v. simple breaches" (presumably of Geneva Conventions). Attached document not provided.