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 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 665
Sworn statement of a Sergeant First Class (E7 - SFC) with A Company; 202 Military Intelligence Battalion assigned to Abu Ghraib Prison in October 2003. The SFC stated that "The document flow on detainees worked as follows. The interrogators would ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Use of phobias, Nudity
June 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 804
Interviewee was the Senior Legal Advisor to LTG Sanchez from June 15, 2003 to May 15, 2004. Noted with respect to interrogations that "we didn't begin to formulate a CJTF-7 command policy until after MG Miller's visit. . . . I believe that MG ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Barbara G. Fast, Walter Wojdakowski, George R. Fay
June 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1289
Male Iraqi National, DOB: January 1, 1960. Circumstances of death are described as: "[t]his 44 year old male, an Iraqi National, was apprehended by US Forces in Kirkuk, Iraq after he and two accomplices fired on coalition forces with rocket ...
June 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1290
Male Iraqi National, 75, collapsed and died during transport to a facility hospital. Circumstances of death: The detainee at the Central Baghdad Detainee Facility (Abu Ghraib) on 11 May 2004 he reportedly abruptly collapsed and became ...
June 16, 2005
Medical (Autopsy)
Hussein Abdullah Awad Al-Juwadi
June 18, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 2459
A soldier was interviewed on 06/09/2004 and a follow-up interview was conducted on 06/10/2004 regarding possible Iraqi detainee abuse while deployed in support of a task force. Heavily redacted.
June 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2583
Sworn statement discussing detainee operations and detention-related paperwork. Mentions the death of a detainee "after he left BSA".
June 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2584

Largely illegible. Sworn statement by an NCO regarding detention procedures. States that detainees were generally held for 1-2 days, and "5 days at the most." States, "I've never heard of any allegations of abuse."

June 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2586

Sworn statement by a HUMINT interrogator. First page entirely redacted. Talks about an individual male interrogator who is "not a good interrogator" because he is aggressive and asks questions with an answer already formulated. Also ...

June 18, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3214
FBI Memo displays a table with approximately six cases, with a summary of facts. The sum of the cases discuss allegations of fraud and abuse. One case discusses an allegation of fraud and the fact that the FBI and DCIS are conducting ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Chart/List
Robert A. Spencer, Thomas H. McQuillan, Michael P. Sullivan, Darlene Hooley
June 18, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4291
Email from Ronald Miller to Jeremy Caddel re: clearance for memo to Kabul from Prosper and Grossman. Mr. Miller's comments are "Amb Prosper spoke with U/S Grossman earlier today about sending this out under his name. Need your immediate clearance ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
Rexon Y. Ryu | Patrick M. Stewart | Jonathan J. Carpenter | John A. Gastright | George H. Frowick
Ronald W. Miller, George H. Frowick, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jeremy D. Caddel, Stewart M. Patrick, John A. Gastright, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Jonathan M. Crock