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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DOD | ACLU-RDI 884
Document is a transcript of a Staff Judge Advocate assigned to AG from November 26, 2003 to December 14, 2003. Described development of interrogation, the interrogation rules of engagement (IROE). Iraq interrogation policy "utilized Guantanamo ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Barbara G. Fast
Physical assault, Sexual, Use of phobias
Apr. 27, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 885
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Interviewee discovered photos of dead bodies on a thumb drive; was able to identify [redacted] among the photos. Returned the thumb drive back to the unit.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Stress positions, Nudity, Other Humiliation
June 01, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 886
The memo briefly discusses JIDC logs.
June 17, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 887
Memo discusses a search of JIDC for documents related to interrogation and debriefing operations from August to January 2004.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George R. Fay
May 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 888

A statement by an individual stationed at Abu Ghraib as an individual augmentee on or about October 16, 2003. The individual stated that at Abu Ghraib, "there was no oversight of most of the interrogations being conducted as everyone was ...

Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Isolation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious
May 13, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 889
Interviewee was assigned to AG sometime in January to interrogate [redacted] general-detainee. Interviewee recounted the following event. The [redacted] general and the son told the interviewee that the [redacted] general's son, who was 17 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Threat, Family/others, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Other
Apr. 27, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 890
Interviewee arrived to AG on October 20, 2003 to conduct interrogation operations. Interviewee briefly discussed what he/she was taught in training, stating "We were not allowed to use Pride and Ego down." Interviewee also provided that he/she ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias
May 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 891
Statement of a Chief warrant officer 2 who was tasked with managing interrogation operations at Abu Ghraib prison in July 2003. The CW2 criticized the organization of interrogation, especially at higher levels, and described it as "amateurish". ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez
May 28, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 892
Memo discusses information obtained from a telephonic interview of redacted. [redacted] discussed the general environment of AG (e.g. protocol for receiving new detainees). [redacted] stated that "it was not uncommon to see people without ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
June 10, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 893
Memo offers notes from a telephonic interview of [redacted] clarifying an earlier telephonic interview and sworn statement. In the interview, [redacted] states that he did not observe detainee abuse and/or nudity.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Nudity