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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June 29, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 904
Email from [redacted] to Al in Intelligence and Security Command. The first message reads: "Al, Here is [redacted] info for his file." Includes a forwarded message that reads: "I have contacted [redacted] civilian defense counsel, for ...
May 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 905
This is a sworn statement by a civilian contract translator from the Titan Corp. who arrived to Abu Ghraib prison around October 11 or 12, 2003 until January 19, 2004 as an Arabic Linguist. He recalled being “informed of do's and don’ts in ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Stress positions, Use of phobias
June 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 906
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Interviewee recalled witnessing two incidents. In the first incident, the detainee was being interrogated, and at one point [redacted] told the detainee to roll down his jumpsuit and ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Physical assault, General, Threat, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 907
Interviewee was assigned to AG in October 2003 as a member of the Tiger Team. Interviewee recalled an interrogation where a member of the interrogation team was among those attacked/injured in an earlier mortar attack believed to be perpetrated ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller, George R. Fay
Physical assault, General, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Mar. 15, 2005 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 908
Memo regarding a March 14, 2004 meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross re: Guantanamo. The document is heavily redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Adolph McQueen
Geoffrey D. Miller
Adolph McQueen, Geoffrey D. Miller, James E. Payne, III
June 24, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 909
Memo re: ICRC Meeting of June 19, 2003. Contents redacted
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, James E. Payne, III, Adolph McQueen, Albert Shimkus
Sept. 23, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 910
Memo concerning a meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross with General Miller re; Guantanamo Detainees. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Mitchell R. LeClaire, Steven M. Lynch
Aug. 18, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 911
Army Memo re: International Committee of the Red Cross Meeting with the Joint Detention Operations Group. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Adolph McQueen, Nelson J. Cannon
Aug. 23, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 912
Army Memo re: CJTF Meeting with International Committee of the Red Cross August 22, 2003. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Mitchell R. LeClaire, Steven M. Lynch
Oct. 09, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 913
Army Memo re: General Miller's Meeting with International Committee of the Red Cross October 9, 2003. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Steven M. Lynch