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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Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the Air Force (AFOSI) and the FBI, also, a Pashtu linguist was present to translate. The detainee explained that he previously lied to ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID, also, an Arabic linguist was present to translate. The detainee advised that he had nothing to say. He stated that a ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other Humiliation, Religious, Other
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by a Special Agent with the FBI and a Special Agent with the Air Force (AFOSI), also, an Urdu linguist was present to translate. Detainee stated that on ...
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. Two interviews were conducted by Special Agents with the FBI, a Special Agent with the Air Force (AFOSI) and a Special Agent with NCIS, also, a linguist was present to translate in both ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Other
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interviewer was a Special Agent with the NCIS, also an Arabic linguist was present. The detainee answered questions regarding his treatment in the camp, his past activities and his trip ...
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) Report of Investigative Activity and the Navy Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). The detainee maintains his innocents and requested to take a ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Threat, Assault/death
DOD Memo on detainee interrogation guidelines advises that all personnel are to treat detainees humanely. Physical torture, corporal punishment and mental torture are not acceptable interrogation tactics; neither is withholding basic human needs; ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Brittain P. Mallow
Brittain P. Mallow
Interview of detainee at Bagram Airbase, Afghanistan. Detainee stated that he is a salesman of clocks and belts who regularly travels around Afghanistan and Pakistan; he has no association with the Taliban or Al Qaeda; and is innocent of any ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File
Physical assault, General
This investigative report was generated by the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF) and the interview was conducted by the Air Force Office of Special Investigation (AFOSI). The detainee "was uncooperative and refused to answer question" but ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other Humiliation, Religious
A DOD Contract Linguist stated that he was involved in at least two questionable interrogation techniques while on duty in Iraq. An unidentified interrogator choked a detainee with a rope noose, lifting the detainee up slowly until the detainee ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death