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 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 691
Telephone interview of [redacted] arrived in AG on October 20, 2003. Was made section leader of for the Force Protection Tiger Team. Recalled seeing detainees mopping the floors, saw civilian clothed men (told they were Iraqi Police) leading ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Abdul Rauf Aliza
Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced grooming, Other
June 14, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 692
"Techniques as sleep deprivation were a common thing. Sleep management was part of the extended IROE.. Of CACI interrogator: "he told me, ' I have been doing this for 20 years and I do not need a 20 yr old telling me how to do my job'. . . . ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Abdul Rauf Aliza
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity