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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Questionnaire asked the Staff Sergeant forty-one questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. [Handwriting illegible] [contents redacted].
Questionnaire asked the Lieutenant Colonel thirty questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. [Handwriting illegible] [contents redacted].

General Bantz J. Craddock, Commander United States Southern Command, ordered an AR 15-6 investigation into alleged instances of abuse at Guantanamo. He appointed Brigadier General John T. Furlow and Lieutenant General Randall M. Schmidt to ...

This Article 32 Proceeding pertains to charges brought against four (4) soldiers for causing the drowning deaths of two (2) Iraqis in the Tigris River outside Samarra, Iraq on January 3, 2004 by forcing them in to the river. The soldiers were ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Physical assault
Court Martial proceedings of Staff Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie, of the 320th MP Battalion at Camp Bucca, Iraq. Charged in relation to incident involving McKenzie abusing Iraqi prisoners of war when they were transported to Camp Bucca. He was one ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Scott A. McKenzie
Lists all relevant dates of the charges and Court Martial against SSG Scott McKenzie
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Scott A. McKenzie
This document is the Charge Sheet against Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie for his Court Martial on abusing Iraqi detainees. It includes the charges; Articles of the UCMJ he is accused of violating; details of the charges; Sgt. McKenzie's plea to each ...
July 01, 2005
Legal Memo, UCMJ (Court-Martial)
David D. McKiernan
Scott A. McKenzie
Face slap or insult slap, Walling, General, Assault/death, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Other Humiliation, Physical assault, Threat
This is the transcript of the Article 32 Proceeding investigating the charges of detainee abuse committed by Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie and three other soldiers of detainees as they arrived at Camp Bucca on May 12, 2003. The charges include ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Physical assault, Sexual
This document is part of the transcript of the Article 32 proceeding against Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie. The transcript starts in the middle of counsel's questing of a witness, and concludes with the proceedings being recessed.
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie
This document is the continued transcript of the Article 32 proceeding against Sergeant Scott A. McKenzie. This transcript picks-up after a recess in the hearing. It starts at 8:00 am on September 1, 2003 and recesses again at 5:05 pm on ...
July 01, 2005
UCMJ (Article 32)
Scott A. McKenzie