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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DOD | ACLU-RDI 744
Interviewee was an Assistant Interrogation Analyst with the 302nd Military Intelligence Brigade. Recalled one occasion in which a MP pushed a hooded-"untruthful" against a railing, causing the detainee to bleed. "I saw a naked detainee who was ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Threat, Isolation, Nudity, Forced physical training
May 27, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 706
Interviewee arrived to AG on August 20, 2003 (left March 29, 2004) as the NCOIC of the Detention Facility Internal Reaction Force (core responsibility was riot control). Recalled that dogs-canine teams arrived at the camp after the riot in Camp ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias
Feb. 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 707

This document is part of the Taguba Report (Annex 83) and included here in the Fay Report. The interview is of Sergeant First Class Keith A. Comer, Platoon Sergeant of the 229th Military Police Company assigned to Abu Ghraib Prison in 2003. ...

Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Donald H. Rumsfeld
Physical assault, Stomach/abdominal slap, General
Jan. 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 689
Abu Ghraib translator's sworn statement and responses to questionnaire. The translator claimed to have witnessed detainees who were physically abused, shaken, thrown into doors, and hit with footballs. Detainees were undressed and forced into ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript, Questionnaire)
Physical assault, Walling, General, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Other
May 01, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 679
Interviewee was an Assistant Interrogation Analyst with the 302nd Military Intelligence Brigade. Recalled one occasion in which a MP pushed a hooded-"untruthful" against a railing, causing the detainee to bleed. "I saw a naked detainee who ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, General, Threat, Isolation, Nudity, Forced physical training
June 16, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 681
Sworn statement, interviewee stated, I was asked to observe an interrogation which possibly fell on the border line [of inappropriate techniques]. Also, stated that he/she "heard of an unauthorized interrogation by three interrogators in SEP 03. ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
June 04, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 664
Sworn statement by 97B counterintelligence agent stating the he "overheard someone making a statement about a detainee dying while being interrogated by an Other Government Agency (OGA) official. The OGA then packed the detainee in ice and ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez
Physical assault, Other
July 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 659
This is the deposition of Brigadier General Janis L. Karpinski regarding conditions at Abu Ghraib Detention Facility. In her interview, Gen. Karpinski testified that she visited cell blocks 1A and 1B regularly; that Abu Ghraib housed juveniles ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Investigative File, Interview (Transcript), Judicial (Transcript)
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Barbara G. Fast, Paul Hill, Kretzer, Walter Wojdakowski, Michael Diamond, David D. McKiernan
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Other
Feb. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 306

Testimony of Sergeant William G. Cathcart, 372nd Military Police Company. SGT Cathcart described his deployment and stated "We didn't receive any training on the Geneva Conventions while working with the Iraqi law enforcement. To my ...

Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, William A. Cathcart
ISN 151365
Physical assault, General, Isolation
Feb. 14, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 257
Testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Gary Maddocks, Executive Officer, 800th Military Police Brigade, which guarded Abu Ghraib prison. LTC Maddocks gave specific and detailed accounts of his experiences at Abu Ghraib that includes the chain of ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Gary W. Maddocks, Paul Hill, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Physical assault, General, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Nudity