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. 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 291
Testimony of Sergeant First Class Keith A. Comer, 372nd Military Police Company. SFC Comer described that he came in to his position as the Company's 1st Sargent because the previous 1st Sargent has been suspended from his duties pending the ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Keith A. Comer, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Isolation
Feb. 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 292
Testimony of Staff Sergeant Robert Elliot, Squad Leader, 372nd Military Police Company. SSG Elliot's job as a Squad Leader and Assistant NCOIC was to keep accountability of inmates, receive new prisoners, the in processing and out processing of ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Robert Elliot, David W. DiNenna, Sr.
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound
Feb. 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 293
Testimony of Staff Sergeant Santos A. Cardona, 320th Military Police Company, Army Dog Handler. SSG stated "I haven't been trained on Geneva Hague Convention. I know it is the rules governing the law of warfare. Basically it covers treating ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Santos A. Cardona
Feb. 13, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 294
Testimony of Sergeant Michael Smith, Army Dog Handler. In discussing how the dog(s) under his control are used. SGT Smith said "Dogs are used at the last level, before deadly force, to prevent escape. I've never had to use my dog in my uses of ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Michael Smith, Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias
Feb. 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 297
Testimony of Mr. John Israel. Mr. Israel is a US Civilian Contract linguist/Interpreter hired by the Department of Defense through the Titan Corporation and assigned to the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade to assist in detainee interrogations ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript, Statement)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, John Israel, John P. Abizaid, Thomas Pappas
Jan. 31, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 298
Field Manual FM 3-19.1 Military Police Operations.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 299
Rules of Engagement for Operations in Iraq for the 800th Military Police Brigade
Oct. 12, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 300
This memorandum establishes the interrogation and counter-resistance policy for security internees under the control of CJTF-7. It recognizes that security internees who are civilians and who are detained pursuant to Articles 5 and 78 of the ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
DOA | ACLU-RDI 301
Mobilization Orders for the 800th Military Police Brigade
Oct. 19, 2004
Chart/List, Other
Chris Geren
Mar. 13, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 302
Sample Detainee Status Report