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 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 854
This is a memo for the record concerning obtaining an interview from a soldier under multiple lines if investigation in connection to the events at Abu Ghraib Prison. The memo states "SUBJECT: Procedure 15 Interview USAR; On 09 June, 2004 ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George R. Fay
June 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 855
Letter to MG Fay confirming the removal of an Army Reserve Captain from the witness list to give testimony on June 5, 2005. The Attorney for the witness requests that someone from MG Fay's office call them "to further discuss this matter."
Mar. 03, 2005
Letter
George R. Fay
George R. Fay
June 03, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 856
The memo, sent via fax, is for the production of records concerning tracking detainees at Abu Ghraib. The memo states "The Change Sheets arc filled out whenever a detainee is moved from one location in the facility to another, the moves are then ...
June 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 857
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Stated that he/she reviewed several photos of detainee abuse. Identified an individual(s) in the photo(s). [document redacted].
June 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 858
Interviewee was assigned to AG from May 2003 to November 2003 as a Platoon Leader, responsible for daytime guard operations. Interviewee stated, "I observed MI use some stress positions to include detainees holding their arms out for extended ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Stress positions, Nudity
May 27, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 859
Interviewee was an interrogator at AG. During his interview with MG Fay, he invoked his rights and the interview was halted because he disclosed that he interrogated a detainee in the nude, but the majority were clothed. He stated, "[t]he ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
George R. Fay, Robert Bruttomesso
Nudity
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 860
Interviewee "invoked HIS right under the Uniformed Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) and declined to make any further statements to Investigating Officers." [Memo redacted]
June 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 861
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Interviewee identified individual(s) in photo(s). [Names are redacted].
Apr. 27, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 862
This statement of a CACI civilian contractor for the Dept. of Defense who states that he arrived at Abu Ghraib Prison on October 5, 2003. He states that "The Joint interrogation Debriefing Center Commander gave all new arrivals a down and dirty ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Physical assault, General, Nudity
May 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 863
Interviewee was assigned to AG in mid-October 2003, assigned to Tier 2 with the Iraqi criminals. Interviewee mentioned needing to handcuff detainees to their cells during a search where dogs were used to look for bombs and other ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez
Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual