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.
The document sets for standard operating procedures for interrogation operations taking place at Guantanamo under the Joint Interrogation Group (JIG) of the Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo Bay. It states that "[t]here is much you will be asked ...
In a summarized witness statement, the Joint Interrogation Group (JIG) Chief at Guantanamo Bay discusses a variety of incidents of abuse alleged to have taken place under his command. With respect to interrogators' impersonation of FBI agents, he ...
This summarized statement of a female Sergeant, who served as an interrogator at Guantanamo between August 2002 and February 2003 on the Saudi Arabian Team. She states that she was aware that loud music; yelling; temp manipulation (using air ...
Summarized witness statement of a Second Lieutenant stationed at Guantanamo between February and November 2003. When asked about various allegations of abuse, the 2LT states that they had no personal knowledge of abuse or the specific allegations ...
Memo of admonishment to a military supervisor for "failure to accomplish supervisory duties" for his failure to ensure that only approved techniques were used in interrogations at Guantanamo. While the admonishment is merely an administrative ...
Summarized witness statement of a Major stationed at Guantanamo from February 2003 to January 2004 who supervised interrogations. The Major admits being aware of a number of incidents of detainee abuse, including a SFC's impersonation of a State ...
Summarized witness statement of a Lt. Col. who was the former Interrogation Control Element (ICE) Chief at Guantanamo for the first week in December 2002 and re-deployed at end of June 2003. When asked about detainee abuse alleged to have ...
Summarized witness statement of Sargent stationed at Guantanamo from August 2002 to February 2003. She was an interrogator with the Gulf States Team. The Sargent states that she may have touched a detainee or put my hand close to a detainee's ...
Summarized witness statement of a Sargent stationed at Guantanamo from August 2003 to February 2003. He was an interrogator for the Special Projects Team. The Sargent stated that during his interrogations he “never impersonated an FBI agent or ...
Summarized witness statement of an Ensign stationed at Guantanamo from July 2002 to October 2002. She was a team leader for interrogators. Asked about various allegations of detainee abuse, she indicated awareness of the use of loud music; ...
Summarized witness statement of a Sargent who was stationed at Guantanamo from August 2002 to February 2003 as an interrogator, however the Sargent stated that her “time was spent reviewing Memorandums for Record and draft interrogation plans ...
Heavily redacted memo from Joint Task force 160 requesting Joint Detention Operations Group support for an operation. The email authjor states that "This request has been reviewed by my Staff Judge Advocate and determined to be legally sufficient".
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 21 Dec 02. Heavily redacted document. The only visible line states "The detainee ate a complete meal and drank an entire bottle of water...The detainee was taken to the latrine and exercised".
The index lists this document as: Memo for the Record dtd 21 Dec 02. Heavily redacted. Talks about medics taking vital signs of detainees. All normal, but "needed to drink water".
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 23 dec 02. Heavily redacted. "Detainee seen by medic at 21:30 hours. His vitals were normal. Detainee taken to the latrine and exercised a couple of times during the night".
The index lists this document as: Memo for the Record 23 Dec 02. Heavily redacted. "Detainee seen by the medic, vitals normal. Also taken to the latrine and exercised".
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 4 Dec 02. Heavily redacted. The readable parts state: "Source was given a head break and taken for a walk. Seen by medical personnel and given the 'all-clear'. Offered water but refused." "Doctor again ...
The index lists this document as: Memo for the Record. Heavily redacted. The readable parts state: "Medical representative felt it necessary to give the source an IV because the last medical check showed the source was becoming dehydrated". "The ...
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 6 Dec 02. Heavily redacted. The readable parts state "Detainee was taken to the latrine several times...he was also offered water and food but every time he would refuse to eat or drink water". "The ...
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 17 Dec 02. Heavily redacted and the first page appears to be missing. The readable parts of the document state that the detainee was seen by medical personnel; he was given food & water;was taken to ...
The index lists this document as: Interrogation Log 17 Dec 02. It appears to be missing the firs or more pages and is redacted in many places. The document details the checking on the detainee and his consumption of food & water; use of the ...
The index lists this document as: Shift Log. The memo discusses the detainee being offered water, refusing it, going to the latrine and being exercised. The detainee was asked if he was going to try to commit suicide, the detainee stated "no", ...
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 20 Dec 02. The document goes over the times the detainee was being offered water (refusing it); going to the latrine; medical check-ups and being exercised. It states "Doctor spoke with detainee and ...
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 20 Dec 02. The document goes over the times the detainee was being offered water (refusing it); going to the latrine; medical check-ups and being exercised. It states detainee stated that the Saudi ...
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 01 Dec 02. The document goes over the times the detainee was being offered water (refusing it); going to the latrine; medical check-ups and being exercised. It states that the detainee was checked ...
The index lists this document as: Shift Log 20 Dec 02. The document goes over the times the detainee was being offered water (refusing it); going to the latrine; medical check-ups and being exercised. Heavily redacted. Talks about detainee ...