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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May 08, 1987 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 364
Army Field Manual: Intelligence Interrogation (Chapters 5 - End). Also includes discussion of fear as an interrogation tool, but states that an interrogator's actions must not violate the Geneva Conventions.
Dec. 31, 2004
Other
Use of phobias
Sept. 29, 1994 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 365
Manual outlining the effects of combat stress and assigning responsibility to officers and medical health personnel for controlling combat stress. Notes that killing or torturing enemy prisoners may be a manifestation of combat stress, but that ...
May 04, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 362
Statement from the Army regarding allegations of abuse at Abu Ghraib (two versions). Army as Executive Agent for Detainee Operations provided talking points regarding contract interrogator standards, interrogation training improvements, and Army ...
Dec. 31, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Isaac Newton Skelton IV, Romie Leslie Brownlee, John Warner, Carl Levin
Physical assault, General
May 07, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 363
Transcript of the testimony of Donald Rumsfeld, Gen. Richard Myers (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), Les Brownlee (Acting Sec. of the Army), Gen. Peter Shoomaker (Army Chief of Staff), and Lt. Gen. Lance Smith (U.S. Central Command Dep. ...
Dec. 31, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Duncan Lee Hunter, Isaac Newton Skelton IV, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Joseph M. Darby, Antonio Taguba, Richard B. Myers, Romie Leslie Brownlee, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, John P. Abizaid, Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald J. Ryder, Ricardo Sanchez, David D. McKiernan, Lance L. Smith, Peter Schoomaker, Hugh James Saxton, Paul Mikolashek, Lance L. Smith, Janis Leigh Karpinski, John McKee Spratt, Jr., William McClellan Thornberry, Lane Allen Evans, Wayne Curtis Weldon, Lamar Seeligson Smith, Hugh James Saxton, John M. McHugh, Terry Everett, Roscoe G. Bartlett, Howard P. McKeon, John N. Hostlettler, Walter B. Jones, Jim Ryun, Jim Gibbons, Robin Hayes, Heather Wilson, Ken Calvert, Robert Ruhl Simmons, Jo Ann Davis, Edward L. Schrock, W. Todd Akin, J. Randy Forbes, Jeff Miller, Joe Wilson, Frank L. Lobiondo, Tom Cole, Joseph E. Bradley, Robert William Bishop, Michael R. Turner, John Kline, Candice S. Miller, John Phillip Gingrey, Michael Dennis Rogers, Trent Franks, Randall Harold Cunningham, John McKee Spratt, Jr., Solomon Porfirio Ortiz, Gary Eugene Taylor, Neil Abercrombie, Martin Meehan, Silvestre Reyes, Victor F. Snyder, James Turner, David Adam Smith, Loretta Sanchez, Douglas Carmichael McIntyre II, Ciro Davis Rodriguez, Ellen O'Kane Tauscher, Robert A. Brady, Baron Paul Hill, John Barry Larson, Susan A. Davis, James R. Langevin, Steve Israel, Richard Ray Larsen, James Hayes Shofner Cooper , James Creel Marshall, Kendrick G. Meek, Madeleine Z. Bordallo, Rodney Alexander, Timothy John Ryan
General, Other Humiliation, Physical assault
May 12, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 360
Transcript of the testimony of Donald Rumsfeld, Gen. Richard Myers (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), and Larry Lanzillotta (Principal Deputy Secretary of Defense) regarding requests for the 2005 defense budget. Afghanistan, Iraq and ...
Dec. 31, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Ted Stevens, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Richard B. Myers, Lawrence J. Lanzillotta, Daniel Inouye, Peter Schoomaker, Robert C. Byrd, Vernon E. Clark, Harry N. Cordes, John P. Abizaid, Ernest Frederick Hollings, George W. Bush, William Thad Cochran, Patrick Leahy, Eric K. Shinseki, Lawrence B. Lindsey, Nicholas Evan Berg, Pietro Vichi Domenici, Thomas Richard Harkin, Thomas E. White, L. Paul Bremer, David S. C. Chu, Christopher Samuel Bond, Richard J. Durbin, Antonio Taguba, Dianne Feinstein, James R. Helmly, George R. Fay, Kay Bailey Hutchison, Byron Leslie Dorgan, Arlen Specter, Addison Mitchell McConnell, Jr., Richard Craig Shelby, Conrad Ray Burns
May 18, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 361

Transcript of the testimony of Richard Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, and Lt. Gen. Walter Sharp (director of strategic plans and policy for the Joint Chiefs of Staff) in regard to plans for the Iraq transfer of sovereignty.

Dec. 31, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Richard Green Lugar, Richard Lee Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, Walter L. Sharp, John Dimitri Negroponte, Marc Grossman, L. Paul Bremer, John P. Abizaid, Ricardo Sanchez, David Kay, Charles Timothy Hagel, Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, Lincoln Davenport Chafee, Condoleeza Rice, Barbara Levy Boxer , Donald H. Rumsfeld, Samuel Dale Brownback, Paul Spyros Sarbanes, Walter L. Sharp, David Petraeus, Thomas F. Metz, George V. Voinovich, Christopher John Dodd, Norman Bertram Coleman, Jr., Richard B. Myers, Bill Nelson, John D. Rockefeller, IV, Jon Stevens Corzine
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Other Humiliation, Sexual
May 19, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 358

Transcript of the testimony of Gen. John Abizaid (commander, U.S. Central Command), Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez (commander, Multinational Force-Iraq), and Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller (deputy commander for detainee operations, Multinational Force) ...

Dec. 31, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
John Warner, John McCain, James M. Inhoff, Pat Roberts, Alan Wayne Allard, Jeff Sessions, Sue Collins, John Ensign, Jim Talent, Saxby Chambliss, Lindsey Graham, Elizabeth Dole, John Cornyn, Carl Levin, Edward M. Kennedy, Robert C. Byrd, Joe Lieberman, Jack Reed, Daniel Akaka, Bill Nelson, Ben Nelson, Mark Dayton, Evan Bayh, Hillary Clinton, Mark Pryor, John P. Abizaid, Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Marc Warren, L. Paul Bremer, Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Antonio Taguba, Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald J. Ryder, George R. Fay, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Thomas Pappas, David D. McKiernan, Keith Dayton, Stephen A. Cambone, William G. Boykin, Paul Wolfowitz, Marc Warren, Paul Hill, Keith B. Alexander, Richard B. Myers, Nicholas Evan Berg, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Richard B. Cheney, Barbara G. Fast, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, Walter L. Sharp
Physical assault, General
May 13, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 359
Transcript of the testimony of Paul Wolfowitz (Deputy Secretary of Defense), Gen. Peter Pace (USMC, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), and Joel Kaplan (Deputy Director of the OMB).
Dec. 31, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
John Warner, Paul Wolfowitz, Peter Pace, Joel Kaplan, George W. Bush, Robert C. Byrd, Jeff Sessions, Alan Wayne Allard, Carl Levin, David Petraeus, Edward M. Kennedy, Lawrence J. Lanzillotta, John McCain, John P. Abizaid, Tommy Franks, Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Ricardo Sanchez, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Charley Cooper, James M. Inhoff, Joe Lieberman, Ben Nelson, Sue Collins, Mark Dayton, Elizabeth Dole, Bill Nelson, Hillary Clinton, Keith B. Alexander, Jack Reed, Jim Talent, Douglas J. Feith
May 08, 1987 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 356
Army Field Manual No. 34-52: FM 34-52 Intelligence Interrogation. Manual sets forth basic principles of interrogation doctrine and procedures and techniques applicable to Army intelligence interrogations. Includes a prohibition againts the use of ...
May 07, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 357

Transcript of the testimony of Donald Rumsfeld, Gen. Richard Myers (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), Les Brownlee (acting sec. of the Army), Gen. Peter Shoomaker (Army Chief of Staff), and Lt. Gen. Lance Smith (U.S. Central Command dep. ...

Dec. 31, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
John Warner, Carl Levin, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Richard B. Myers, Romie Leslie Brownlee, Peter Schoomaker, Lance L. Smith, Antonio Taguba, Alberto R. Gonzales, Joseph Darby, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, John P. Abizaid, George R. Fay, John McCain, Edward M. Kennedy, Pat Roberts, Robert C. Byrd, Alan Wayne Allard, Joe Lieberman, Jeff Sessions, Ricardo Sanchez, Jack Reed, Geoffrey D. Miller, Sue Collins, Daniel Akaka, Lindsey Graham, Bill Nelson, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ensign, Jim Talent, Saxby Chambliss, Elizabeth Dole, Ben Nelson, Mark Dayton, Evan Bayh, Hillary Clinton, Mark Pryor, William Frist
Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual