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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Sworn statement by a Master of Arms, the equivalent of a military police officer in the army. Talks about law enforcement procedures and training for handling detainees. Claims never to have seen any abuse of detainees, and states, "Everything in ...
Sworn statement of a detainee. States that, following his capture on April 27, 2004, he was put in a compartment so small that he could only sit in it. States he was severely beaten in an attempt to force a confession, threatened with rape, ...
Sworn statement of a detainee. States that following his capture, he was held for two and a half days in a box too small for him to stand. States, "I couldn't sleep in two days. They were playing very loud Western music, like rock music." States ...
Statement of detainee captured by Special Forces and taken to a place that he believed belonged to the CIA. States that he was held in a box "one meter long and one meter high," given no food for three days, and prevented from sleeping by "loud ...
Contents Completely Redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Valerie E. Caproni
The document is an internal FBI email, regarding the use of extreme and abusive interrogation techniques against detainees by the military as well as the procedures for reporting such techniques to the Department of Defense.
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Mohammed al Qahtani
Investigation into death of Ibrahim Hamadan Sudhail after he was shot during an attack upon Coalition forces in Fallujah. Mr. Sudhail was brought to the hospital for treatment of his wounds (gunshot to the abdomen) treated and transferred in to ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Ibrahim Hamadan Sudhail
Series of emails regarding procedures to follow regarding bodies of deceased detainee at Al-Taqaddum Air Base ("TQ"). NCIS emails instructs recipient to "try to find that body, we’ll exhume if possible." In response to resistance to exhumation ...
Memorandum for record of a May 5, 2004 interview of a soldier interviewed concerning his "failure to report abuse" and "false testimony." The soldier invoked his right to counsel, the interview ended.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
George R. Fay
Unknown interviewee's sworn statement stating "On June 24, 2004, I identified [redacted] from a photo spread provided to me as being the unknown Captain described in my January 20, 2004 statement to CID Agent. This is the Captain that I witnessed ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, General