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. 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 813
This statement is made by the Navy's Non-Commissioned Officer in Charge (NCOIC) of the Navy Military Working Dogs (MWD) used at Abu Ghraib prison. He is a Petty Officer and a senior dog handler. As it pertains to Rules of Engagement (ROE) for the ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Threat, Use of phobias
DOD | ACLU-RDI 814
Interviewee was a dog handler in AG. Recalled an event where his/her dog took a "snap" at the female involved with the interrogation.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Use of phobias
DOD | ACLU-RDI 815
Interviewee was a dog handler in AG with the 229 Military Police Company (length of assignment unknown). Interviewee's sworn statement consists of questions and answers regarding dog handling. Recalled being requested to the Hard Site in order ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Use of phobias
June 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 816
Interviewee (title and length of assignment in AG is unknown). Interviewee's sworn statement identifies various individuals. [Information redacted].
June 04, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 817
Interviewee was a Navy Dog Handler (Team Leader) assigned to AG either November 20 or 21, 2003 until April 2, 2004. Recalled that on November 24, 2003 there was a riot in AG, recalled the scene in the Hard Site as chaotic, recalled that cells ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
George R. Fay
Stress positions, Use of phobias
June 29, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 818
Email discusses an interview with [redacted]. Email refers to the attachment of sworn statement and photographs. Email mentions "an unauthorized interrogation of a female detainee" stating the interrogators made the detainee strip to expose her ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Email
Nudity
June 04, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 819
[Handwritten, at times illegible] Interviewee was a member of Military Intelligence arrived to AG on or about October 24, 2003, answered that he/she never witnessed detainee abuse or sexual assault. Interviewee did attest to the nudity of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Thomas Pappas
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, Sexual, General, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Nudity, Forced physical training
June 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 820
Interviewee (title and length of assignment in AG unknown). Interviewee's sworn statement identified individuals involved with detainee abuse. One picture depicts a room without a mattress and a blood stained floor with drag marks.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault
June 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 821
Interviewee (title and length of assignment in AG unknown). Interviewee's sworn statement identified individuals involved in detainee abuse.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Use of phobias
June 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 822
Interviewee (title and length of assignment at AG unknown). In their sworn statement the interviewee identified individuals involved in alleged detainee abuse at AG.