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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Mar. 23, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2347
Summarized witness statement of a Second Lieutenant stationed at Guantanamo between February and November 2003. When asked about various allegations of abuse, the 2LT states that they had no personal knowledge of abuse or the specific allegations ...
June 15, 2006
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2343
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2344
The index lists this document as: SAC (redacted) Summarized Witness Statement
Jan. 10, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2345
In a summarized witness statement, the Joint Interrogation Group (JIG) Chief at Guantanamo Bay discusses a variety of incidents of abuse alleged to have taken place under his command. With respect to interrogators' impersonation of FBI agents, he ...
June 15, 2006
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
John T. Furlow
John T. Furlow, Geoffrey D. Miller
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Jan. 21, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2341
The document sets for standard operating procedures for interrogation operations taking place at Guantanamo under the Joint Interrogation Group (JIG) of the Joint Task Force (JTF) Guantanamo Bay. It states that "[t]here is much you will be asked ...
June 15, 2006
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush
DOD | ACLU-RDI 2342
The index lists this document as: LCDR Summarized Witness Statement.
Jan. 15, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2338
The index lists this document as: SECDEF Rescission dtd 15 Jan 03.
Apr. 16, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2339
The index lists this document as: SECDEF Memorandum dtd 16 Apr 03 New Policy.
June 02, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2340
The index lists this document as: CDR USSOUTHCOM Memorandum dtd 2 Jun 03.
Oct. 11, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2335
The index lists this document as: MG Dunlavey Request dtd 11 October 2002.