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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
DOA | ACLU-RDI 633
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Emergency Medical Treatment at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay
DOA | ACLU-RDI 638
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Infection Control at the Detainee Hospital at Guantanamo
DOA | ACLU-RDI 661
Sworn statement from a CACI contractor who screened detainees arriving at Abu Ghraib from Asamiya Palace (alternate spelling: Adhamiya Palace) from mid-December 2003 through January 2004. The Screener describes in her statement hearing ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, Walling, Sexual, General, Use of electricity, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Other
DOA | ACLU-RDI 685
Sworn statement from CACI civilian Contractor, recalled statements made to him/her by female detainee(s). The detainee(s) recounted their experiences at Al Azimiyah Palace. He stated "have never witnessed and physical abuse in Abu Ghraib. I have ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Assault/death, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
DOA | ACLU-RDI 687
This is the sworn statement of a military intelligence civilian contractor from the CACI company assigned to Abu Ghraib prison as a Screene in mid-December 2003. He states that he did not recall directly observing any abuse at Abu Ghraib. He ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Other
DOD | ACLU-RDI 695
Illegible handwritten notes.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 732
Statement of Civilian Contractor (CACI), Interrogator who arrived to Abu Ghraib October 5, 2003. Stated that he/she did not witness abuse of detainees; use of dogs or any photos being taken of detainees.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias
DOA | ACLU-RDI 733
Sworn statement of an Reserve Army Captain who stated they were approached with a thumb drive, which depicted images of dead anti-coalition forces and captured anti-coalition forces on the battlefield. Stated that he/she advised the unnamed ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 744
Interviewee was an Assistant Interrogation Analyst with the 302nd Military Intelligence Brigade. Recalled one occasion in which a MP pushed a hooded-"untruthful" against a railing, causing the detainee to bleed. "I saw a naked detainee who was ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Threat, Isolation, Nudity, Forced physical training
DOD | ACLU-RDI 746
Interviewee was assigned to AG on September 15, 2003. Interviewee provided a sworn statement in which he/she stated that at Camp Cropper, "it was well known that detainees who were brought into the facility complained of beatings from members of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Physical assault, General, Threat, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation