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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July 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2556
Sworn statement by a commander, probably of a detention facility. Discusses detentions and interrogations, and states, "After medical screening the detainee would be ... secured to the floor by a 3ft chain linked to handcuffs.... Detainees were ...
July 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2558

Statement of Sergeant First Class who served as an interrogator. Describes interrogations, and states that only specific interrogators conduct interrogations. Continues, "Our command has authorization to detain people longer than 72 ...

June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Assault/death, Cramped confinement, Hooding/Goggling, Other Humiliation, Threat, Environmental manipulation
July 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2559
Sworn statement by "one of the team members who conducts interrogations of the detainees" at the THF (Temporary Holding Facility) at the Adhamiya Palace Complex. Interrogator states that he has "never used stress positions," and states, "At no ...
July 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2612
Record of proceedings under Article 15 UCMJ, to evaluate whether a soldier attached to 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group should be punished under Article 15 for assaulting a detainee at Ar Ramadi. Lists allegations that soldier was "cruel ...
June 30, 2006
UCMJ (Article 15)
Physical assault
July 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2671
This sworn statement is from an intake soldier, unidentified here, wherein he gives a brief discussion of medical screening and intake for the 1st Calvary Division Interrogation Facility. The soldier states that "Detainees that have come to us ...
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3044
Internal FBI email requesting agents who served at Guantanamo to submit reports on their observations if abuse of detainees, if any. One (1) agent submitted an abuse allegation.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Steven C. McCraw, Valerie E. Caproni
Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Religious, Other
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3046
FBI agent observed a detainee shackled to a chair with loud rock music playing and a strobe light flashing.
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni
Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3151
Counterrorism Division Guantanamo Bay Inspection Special Inquiry Computer search page. No content.
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3211

An email from the FBI to the DOJ regarding the revised statement of Valerie E. Caproni, FBI General Counsel, before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The testimony discusses FBI special agent training in interrogating ...

Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Valerie E. Caproni, Jane Harman
July 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3371

Emails discussing the final version of Valerie E. Caproni's testimony/statement, which includes OLP and Crim comments. Emails reference the attachment of the statement/testimony.

May 18, 2005
Email
Adrien Silas
Valerie E. Caproni, Adrien Silas, Genna Burnhardt, Crystal Roberts, Faith Burton, Peter B. Owen, Steven G. Bradbury, Patrick Philbin