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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June 01, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1921
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June 07, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1922
A detainee claims that during an interview conducted on 06/03/04, he was made to stand with his arms outstretched for three hours, then forced to kneel until he had a heart problem and collapsed. He stated he was taken to the hospital, but the ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Forced physical training
June 08, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 1923

NCIS interview of a detainee at Guantanamo regarding his activities in Afghanistan. The detainee stated that he traveled throughout Afghanistan doing charity work and teaching the Koran. The detainee stated that he never took up arms while in ...

Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File (NCIS), Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Other
| ACLU-RDI 1924
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet. Blank Page. Contents redacted.
Aug. 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1926
Advises Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) personnel must immediately report allegations of abuse as soon as possible. CITF interrogators will ask detainee how he is feeling and how he has been treated and report any allegations of abuse up ...
Aug. 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1927
A detainee at Guantanamo alleged that he was abused in Afghanistan and this memo is a follow-up on that allegation. It is also states that "timely notification of any indictment, conviction, or judgment involving defense contractors in order to ...
Oct. 17, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 1931
On September 14, 2004, a detainee stated that when he was captured (possibly in Khowst), an individual forced him to talk by holding a knife to his throat. Then he was forced to hold his hands out to carry sandbags, which caused abrasions in his ...
Sept. 01, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1934
Purpose is to provide additional guidance to Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) agents regarding use of various techniques and methods for conducting interviews of detainees. Pursuant to the President's order of Feb. 2, 2002, CITF will ...
Sept. 23, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1935
Memo states that joint FBI DOD interviews of detainees is behind schedule, but that the individual agencies can commence with interviewing.
Sept. 13, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1936
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