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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Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6395
This document is a "CaseMap Facts Report" providing information on an interview with Chris Swecker. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all of his statements. He describes various detainee abuses and interrogation practices.
Dec. 07, 2010
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Temperature, Environmental manipulation
Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6397
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee describes various detainee abuses and interrogation ...
Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6404
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with Pat D'Amuro. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he did not observe an improper behavior from ...
Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6405
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he did not observe an improper behavior ...
Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6406
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he did not observe an improper behavior ...
Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6407
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with Arthur Cummings. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. Cummings discusses FBI practices at length, and mentions some forms of ...
Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6408
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with Valerie Caproni. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. Caproni edits a previous statement she made.
Dec. 07, 2010
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Valerie E. Caproni
Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6409
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with Valerie Caproni. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. Caproni comments on the origins of the OIG investigation, discusses ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Valerie E. Caproni
Feb. 24, 2009 | ACLU-RDI 6410
This document is a "CaseMaps Facts report" providing information on an interview with a redacted source. It provides dates and times, summaries, and sources for all statements. The interviewee states that he observed a variety of torture, ...
Dec. 07, 2010
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Family/others, Light or sound, Temperature, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Threat, Environmental manipulation
Feb. 25, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6160
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel [Redacted], regarding his work experience with the Hostage Rescue Team, concerns about the Department of Defense's interrogation techniques, and the discrepancy between his ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Andrew Arena, Pasquale D'Amuro, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Michael E. Dunlavey , Geoffrey D. Miller, David E. Nahmias, Marion E. Bowman, John Ashcroft, Frankie Battle, Thomas J. Harrington, Raymond Mey, Arthur M. Cummings, II, Larry A. Mefford, John S. Pistole, Gary M. Bald, Robert S. Mueller, Chuck Rosenberg, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, Laura H. Parsky, Bruce Swartz, Paul Wolfowitz, Willie T. Hulon, Michael J. Heimbach