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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Sept. 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 937
General Kern testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on the detainee abuse that occurred at Abu Ghraib prison. Gen. Kern stated "We set our course to find truth, not to “whitewash” or to convict those who are not incriminated". And ...
Apr. 06, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Paul J. Kern
Paul J. Kern, Carl Levin, Anthony R. Jones, George R. Fay, Antonio Taguba, Donald J. Ryder, Walter Wojdakowski, Geoffrey D. Miller, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Sept. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2361
The index lists this document as: SA [redacted] FD 302 from FBI dtd 9 Sep 04.
Sept. 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4798
Telephonic interview of former Guantanamo Bay (GTMO) interrogator. The interrogator was assigned to GTMO for two months, February and March of 2003 and stated that during that time she did not witness any incidents she believed were inconsistent ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Stress positions, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other Humiliation
Sept. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4888
This memo is a response to a Bureau wide memo sent by Steve McCraw to illicit information from FBI agents who toured through Guantanamo Bay to report any suspected or witnessed abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The memo is a telephonic ...
Sept. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4889

Receipt of note entitled "GTMO Special Inquiry"

Sept. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4890
Handwritten notes on observations of detainee interrogations at Camp Delta, Guantanamo. The FBI agent notes that he saw a detainee "chained hand/foot" in a fetal position; detainees urinated & defecated upon themselves; and the temperature of the ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Notes
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other Humiliation, Environmental manipulation
Sept. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4920
FBI memo of interview of detainee at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay concerning the "Portland 7" case in the United States. The agent reports that when the detainee was brought in for the interview, the detainee had a "black eye, facial cuts around ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Face slap or insult slap
Sept. 09, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4921
Receipt of Original Notes. No content.
Sept. 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4912
FBI agent's handwritten notes about his tour of Camp Delta, Guantanamo where he states that he walked into a Camp Delta observation room and noticed a detainee in an interview room rubbing his leg due to possibly being placed in-a stress ...
Jan. 02, 2007
Notes
Geoffrey D. Miller
Stress positions
Sept. 10, 2004 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 6181
Transcript of interview with FBI Special Agent who previously worked as a Case Agent tasked to participate in detainee interviews at Guantanamo Bay. The Agent purportedly never participated in any aggressive treatment, interrogations or interview ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Interview (Transcript)
Stress positions