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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Feb. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 306

Testimony of Sergeant William G. Cathcart, 372nd Military Police Company. SGT Cathcart described his deployment and stated "We didn't receive any training on the Geneva Conventions while working with the Iraqi law enforcement. To my ...

Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, William A. Cathcart
ISN 151365
Physical assault, General, Isolation
Feb. 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 307
Testimony of First Lieutenant Michael A. Drayton, Commander, 870th Military Police Company. 1LT Drayton described the tension between the Military Police and the Military Intelligence components at Abu Ghraib. Then the 1Lt stated "One of my ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Michael A. Drayton, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Jerry Phillabaum, Thomas Pappas
General, Physical assault
Feb. 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 308
Cpt. Reese was the commander of the soldiers directly involved in detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib. He said of his men “I'm appalled by what I saw from my soldiers; 2 out of the 7 here are correctional officers. And they were specifically put there ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Donald J. Reese, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Jerry Phillabaum, Steven L. Jordan, John P. Abizaid, Michael Sheridan
Nudity, Forced physical training
Jan. 17, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 309
This is a memo of admonishment for Gen. Karpinski's service record file. It pertains to her leadership and command of the Military Police activities and abuse at Abu Ghraib prison.
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo, Letter
Ricardo Sanchez
Janis Leigh Karpinski
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Ricardo Sanchez
Feb. 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 310

This is a memo for the handling and accountability of detainees in military custody. It takes the recommendations from the investigation of detainee abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison and gives specific instructions and details on how ...

Feb. 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 311
Testimony of Captain Marc C. Hale, Commander, 670th Military Police Company. Cpt. Hale described how his unit got to Iraq and the challenges they faced as soldiers. He stated that they were for escorting personnel such as contractors and other ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Marc C. Hale, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Paul Hill, Ricardo Sanchez
DOA | ACLU-RDI 312
Cover Page for General Ryder's Report Annex 19. No content. No additional pages.
Oct. 19, 2004
Other
Donald J. Ryder
DOA | ACLU-RDI 313

Cover Page for Annex 40. No additional information. No additional pages.

Feb. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 314
Cover Page for Annex 97. No additional information. No additional pages.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 315

Cover Page for Annex 103 and 104. No additional information. No additional pages.