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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
June 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 696
Interview of a civilian contractor with the Titan Corp. assigned to Abu Ghraib prison as an interrogator. The gentleman recalls several incidents of detainees being inappropriately treated before, during and after interrogations. He specifically ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, Walling, General, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
June 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 756
Sworn statement of a Sergeant First Class (SFC) who arrived to Abu Ghraib prison in December 2003. The SFC recalled seeing a sign regarding the stripping down of a detainee and his cell for security purposes. The SFC inquired and the orders were ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Nudity
June 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 785
Interviewee (position and date of assignment is unknown) identified [redacted] officials in photographs.
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.
June 12, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 840
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Interviewee reviewed several photographs of the alleged detainee abuse; identified several individuals.
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 13, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 826
Interviewee was a detainee at AG on or around December 2003. The detainee stated that "[w]hen I arrived, I was handcuffed and had a sandbag over my head." The detainee continued, "the treatment at Abu Ghraib was not bad and I was never hit in ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Walling, General, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
June 13, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3597
This is an article published in the Agence France-Presse concerning the release from Guantanamo of twenty-three (23) Afghanis back to Afghanistan and their journey back to their homes.
June 14, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 559
Navy NCIS Middle East Field Office announces temporary deployment of special agents from Bahrain to Iraq because "case load is exploding, high visibility cases are on the rise." A later email attaches the latest case control summary for open Team ...