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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Interviewee arrived at AG on September 23, 2003 as an interrogator. Interviewee recalled one incident that occurred at the hard site. He/she saw an MP hit a detainee in order to get him into his cell. Interviewee also recalled that an MP ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation
Interviewee was assigned to AG from October 7-21, 2003 as a member of a five person Mobile Training Team. Interviewee stated that he/she did not witness detainee abuse and/or the use of dogs.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Use of phobias
Memo discusses notes taken on June 9, 2004 from a telephonic interview with [redacted] concerning his knowledge of abuse at AG. The interviewee stated he never observed or heard of detainee abuse and/or nudity. Interviewee did state he believed ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Sexual, Isolation, Nudity
Statement of a Chief warrant officer 2 who was tasked with managing interrogation operations at Abu Ghraib prison in July 2003. The CW2 criticized the organization of interrogation, especially at higher levels, and described it as "amateurish". ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez
Memo discusses information obtained from a telephonic interview of redacted. [redacted] discussed the general environment of AG (e.g. protocol for receiving new detainees). [redacted] stated that "it was not uncommon to see people without ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Memo offers notes from a telephonic interview of [redacted] clarifying an earlier telephonic interview and sworn statement. In the interview, [redacted] states that he did not observe detainee abuse and/or nudity.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Nudity
Interviewee was assigned to AG sometime in January to interrogate [redacted] general-detainee. Interviewee recounted the following event. The [redacted] general and the son told the interviewee that the [redacted] general's son, who was 17 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Threat, Family/others, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Other
Interviewee arrived to AG on October 20, 2003 to conduct interrogation operations. Interviewee briefly discussed what he/she was taught in training, stating "We were not allowed to use Pride and Ego down." Interviewee also provided that he/she ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias
The memo briefly discusses JIDC logs.
Memo discusses a search of JIDC for documents related to interrogation and debriefing operations from August to January 2004.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George R. Fay