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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Apr. 03, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1396
An Army questionnaire including a series of questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The soldier recalled a juvenile ...
Apr. 03, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1397
An Army questionnaire including a series of questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
Apr. 03, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1398
An Army questionnaire including a series of questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
Apr. 03, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1399
An Army questionnaire including a series of questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
Apr. 03, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1612
An Army questionnaire, including forty-four questions, given to a soldier regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted.
Apr. 04, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1847
Email includes an attachment, which is a power-point presentation entitled processing detainees. Includes power point presentation.
Apr. 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2557

Two sworn statements, one by Sergeant First Class NCO 2/5 Special Forces Group involved in detainee operations and one by a detainee. Both refer to the same interrogation, in which the detainee confessed involvement in 6 attacks on coalition ...

Apr. 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3643
DOS Cable, the subject reads: Ambassador Prosper discusses detainee issues with ICRC president Kellenberger. [There is no other discernible information].
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Pierre-Richard Prosper, Richard A. Boucher, Mitchell B. Reiss, Frank E. Schmelzer
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 322
Regulations establishing the policy, procedures, and responsibilities associated with the U.S. Army Corrections System (ACS). ACS is for "military offenders," including those transferred from other (non-army) services and provides "uniform system ...
Dec. 31, 2004
Other
Joel B. Hudson
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 755
Interviewee was the Platoon Sergeant for the 4th Platoon of the 372nd Military Police Company, he/she arrived on October 1, 2003. Recalled hearing about a soldier take a female detainee into the wood shack, but did not recall the specifics of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation