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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June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 737
Statement by Lieutenant Colonel documenting an interview with the Commander of the 72nd Military Police Company, who discussed a former unit armorer at Abu Ghraib. This individual reportedly had a "nervous breakdown" after witnessing shootings ...
June 09, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 741
Memo of telephonic interview of an Iraqi Survey Group (ISG) Debriefer. Memo notes that all ISG debriefings were conducted without use of coercive methods.
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 789
The memo contains information learned from a telephonic interview on June 9, 2004. The interviewee was assigned to AG from mid December 2003 to March 2004 as the chief of the medical team assigned to treat security detainees. Stated that he did ...
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 805
Memo provides transcript from Procedure 15 interview of [redacted]. Described development of Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF-7) Policy to regulate interrogation operations. Stated, "[w]e wanted interrogation plans to be comprehensive and ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Barbara G. Fast, Thomas Pappas
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 836
Interviewee's title and length of assignment are unknown. Interviewee's sworn statement is an explanation of the procedure for processing detainee files.
June 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 854
This is a memo for the record concerning obtaining an interview from a soldier under multiple lines if investigation in connection to the events at Abu Ghraib Prison. The memo states "SUBJECT: Procedure 15 Interview USAR; On 09 June, 2004 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George R. Fay
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 876
Interviewee discussed the procedures dealing in Collection Management and Dissemination (CM &D) shop - transfer of detainee information.
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 877
Memo discusses information learned from an telephonic interview. The interviewee discussed email traffic findings, stated nothing in the email traffic discussed detainee abuse.
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 883
Interviewee was assigned to AG on or about October 10, 2003 approximately until the end of October 2003 as a member of a five person Mobile Training Team. Interviewee recalled seeing a memo entitled "SECDEF Memo" which discusses approach ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 901
First page missing - only contains signature/oath.