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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Interviewee was assigned to AG from October 7-21, 2003 as a member of a five person Mobile Training Team. Interviewee stated that he/she did not witness detainee abuse and/or the use of dogs.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Use of phobias
Memo discusses notes taken on June 9, 2004 from a telephonic interview with [redacted] concerning his knowledge of abuse at AG. The interviewee stated he never observed or heard of detainee abuse and/or nudity. Interviewee did state he believed ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, Sexual, Isolation, Nudity
This sworn statement by a Command Sergeant Major (CSM) for his Unit, the 325th Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion (BN) deployed to Iraq in March 2003. He states "I was only at Abu Ghraib (AG) on three occasions and all three visits were one-day ...
Interviewee was assigned to AG the first week of November 2003 as a Tiger Team Analyst. Interviewee recalled seeing a CACI civilian "grab a detainee off the Humvee and drop him to the ground. He then dragged the detainee into the interrogation ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interviewee arrived at AG on September 23, 2003 as an interrogator. Interviewee recalled one incident that occurred at the hard site. He/she saw an MP hit a detainee in order to get him into his cell. Interviewee also recalled that an MP ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation
Interviewee arrived to AG October 1, 2003 and was responsible for escorting detainees from AG to the court house and other detention facilities in downtown AG. Interviewee recalled hearing about photos being taken of a detainee who had "shit all ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Other Humiliation
This sworn statement is by a civilian contractor with the Titan Corp. assigned to Abu Ghraib prison on October 13, 2003 as a Linguist/Translator to conduct translation services during interrogations at the prison. The translator recalled hearing ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas
Use of water, Other, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced grooming
First page missing - only contains signature/oath.
Memo contains information obtained from an interview of [redacted]. Interviewee arrived in AG from late July 2003, he generally discusses the interrogation process and the interrogation rules of engagement (IROE). Interviewee noted that ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Interviewee was assigned to AG from October 1, 2003 to February 6, 2004 and was responsible for the 'care and feeding' of the soldiers. Interviewee recalled hearing about three soldiers receiving Article 15s for an unauthorized interrogation of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Other Humiliation