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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Email from [redacted] to Al in Intelligence and Security Command. The first message reads: "Al, Here is [redacted] info for his file." Includes a forwarded message that reads: "I have contacted [redacted] civilian defense counsel, for ...
This is a sworn statement by a civilian contract translator from the Titan Corp. who arrived to Abu Ghraib prison around October 11 or 12, 2003 until January 19, 2004 as an Arabic Linguist. He recalled being “informed of do's and don’ts in ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Stress positions, Use of phobias
Interviewee (title and length of assignment unknown). Interviewee recalled witnessing two incidents. In the first incident, the detainee was being interrogated, and at one point [redacted] told the detainee to roll down his jumpsuit and ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Physical assault, General, Threat, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation
Interviewee was assigned to AG in October 2003 as a member of the Tiger Team. Interviewee recalled an interrogation where a member of the interrogation team was among those attacked/injured in an earlier mortar attack believed to be perpetrated ...
Memo regarding a March 14, 2004 meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross re: Guantanamo. The document is heavily redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Adolph McQueen
Geoffrey D. Miller
Adolph McQueen, Geoffrey D. Miller, James E. Payne, III
Memo re: ICRC Meeting of June 19, 2003. Contents redacted
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, James E. Payne, III, Adolph McQueen, Albert Shimkus
Memo concerning a meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross with General Miller re; Guantanamo Detainees. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Mitchell R. LeClaire, Steven M. Lynch
Army Memo re: International Committee of the Red Cross Meeting with the Joint Detention Operations Group. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Adolph McQueen, Nelson J. Cannon
Army Memo re: CJTF Meeting with International Committee of the Red Cross August 22, 2003. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Mitchell R. LeClaire, Steven M. Lynch
Army Memo re: General Miller's Meeting with International Committee of the Red Cross October 9, 2003. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Steven M. Lynch
General Dunlavey's meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross: Minutes of October 29, 2003 Meeting. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Michael E. Dunlavey , John J. Perrone
Minutes of November 7, 2002 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross . Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Michael E. Dunlavey , John J. Perrone
Minutes of November 19, 2002 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, W. Scott Cummings, Adolph McQueen
November 19, 2002 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
John J. Perrone, Isadore Rommes, Adolph McQueen
November 25, 2002 meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
John J. Perrone, Adolph McQueen
Minutes of December 2, 2002 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, John J. Perrone, Adolph McQueen
December 9, 2002 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Adolph McQueen
December 17, 2002 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, James E. Payne, III, Adolph McQueen
Minutes of January 3, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, W. Scott Cummings, Adolph McQueen
February 21, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, W. Scott Cummings, Adolph McQueen
February 24, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Adolph McQueen
Minutes of March 3, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Adolph McQueen
Minutes of March 10, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Adolph McQueen
Minutes of March 17, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Adolph McQueen
Minutes of March 24, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Adolph McQueen
Minutes of March 14, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, James E. Payne, III, Adolph McQueen
Minutes of March 24, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Adolph McQueen
Army Memo re: Minutes of April 11, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, W. Scott Cummings
Army Memo re: April 10, 2002 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
This email is to ensure that all FBI personnel touring through Guantanamo Bay and who participate in interrogations of detainees adhere to the Bureaus policies on the treatment of suspects and their own personal conduct when conducting ...
General Sanchez establishes guidlines (attached) for all interrogations and states in this memo that: the interpreters are civilians who are subject to the Geneva Conventions; the interrogation techniques are only for “security internees under ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sanchez
This Memo is fowarding Gen. Sanchez's September 14, 2003 memo (ACLU RDI 935) which states "this memo that the interpreters are civilians who are subject to the Geneva Conventions; the interrogation techniques are only for “security internees”; ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Ricardo Sanchez
Ricardo Sanchez

Memo discusses the identifying of a Military Police Captain who reportedly assaulted an Iraqi detainee. Interviewee reported that he/she observed [redacted] choking, dragging, kicking an Iraqi detainee on or about November 24, 2003. At the ...

Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Transcript)
George R. Fay
Physical assault, General
CID report of investigation following the report by two members of a military unit deployed to Iraq who accused their fellow unit soldiers of stealing money, food and cellular phones from Iraqi civilians on “numerous occasions”, while searching ...
Detainee was captured in Altlafia by US forces on June 3, 2004. His hands were tied and he was placed in a tank. He claimed that inside the tank soldiers hit him in the stomach, nose and mouth area with their fists and a metal pipe. One ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault
Investigation initiated after Playboy Magazine published an article in May 2004, titled “Death and Dishonor,” alleging that soldiers of the 1/15th Infantry Battalion, 3d Brigade, 3d Infantry Division (Ft. Benning, GA), committed numerous war ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Pamela Andrews, Thom Jones
Physical assault, Sexual, General
A Colonel new to a military Company found movie entitled “Ramadi Madness” on the hard drive of the combat Company’s computer in the Company’s facilities in St. Augustine, Florida and reported the matter to CID. The movie was a composite of ...
CID report of investigation into a non-fatal shooting inside Camp Bucca, Iraq during a prison riot on September 22, 2003. The investigation determined that the use of live ammunition and the subsequent non-deadly shooting of one of the detainees ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott, Thom Jones
Physical assault
Investigation into death of Ibrahim Hamadan Sudhail after he was shot during an attack upon Coalition forces in Fallujah. Mr. Sudhail was brought to the hospital for treatment of his wounds (gunshot to the abdomen) treated and transferred in to ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Ibrahim Hamadan Sudhail
A CID investigation was initiated after an interrogator stated that he knew of abuse had occurred at the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP). The interrogator said that he was reporting this conduct because he felt the actions were inhumane ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Stress positions, Other Humiliation
This CID investigation was initiated upon receiving a complaint by a civilian interrogator that he “heard a rumor” that a guard at the Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) holding facility urinated in a water bottle and gave it to a detainee to ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Other
Detainees brought Fawaz Badaa Najem's body to gate at Abu Ghraib during the night after hearing him gasping. He had been otherwise well and had no medical history. The investigation established probable cause to believe that detainee Najem died ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Fawaz Badaa Najem
Other
This CID investigation was initiated after an article in the newspaper USA Today on July 6, 2004 ran claiming that a detainee named Makin Marwan Kaka, who was being held at the Hard Site of Abu Ghraib, was abused during his stay and interrogation ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Makin Marwan Kaka
Physical assault, Nudity
Report of investigation into allegations of abuse of two Ukrainian detainees at Abu Ghraib following a report on DeepikaGlobal.com that US MPs used chemical agents against them. After their detention at Abu Ghraib, the two detainees were released ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Pamela Andrews
Other
Report of investigation into the deaths of Fras Moazahim Habib and Husham Nafit Ghafar, two detainees who died in US custody at Abu Ghraib, during the course of a prison riot in Ganci 3. Habib died of a gunshot wound to the chest and Ghafar died ...
Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Fras Moazahim Habib, Husham Nafit Ghafar
Physical assault, General

Investigation into an incident in which two marines, both from 1st Medical Battalion, Combat Service Support Group-15, posed for photographs while pointing their M-16 service rifles at an enemy prisoner of war, whom they were assigned to guard ...

A CID Investigation was initiated based on the claims by a Sergeant that he witnessed several counter-intelligence (CI) agents abuse Iraqi detainees during interrogations while he was stationed in Samarra, Iraq. The Sergeant stated he saw CI ...

Mar. 02, 2005
Investigative File (CID)
Physical assault, Threat, Assault/death