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 04, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 757
Interviewee was assigned to AG from the end of August/first of September 2003 and remained there until March 1, 2004. Noted that there was an excel spreadsheet kept on sleep management and deprivation techniques requested or approved. Recalled ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation
June 03, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 758
Interviewee made more than one trip to AG. First was a an interrogator assigned to AG to review interrogation database/report protocol. Second as a member of Tiger Team. Observed the following techniques, sleep deprivation, altering of meal ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation
May 15, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 774
Interviewee was assigned to AG as the deputy commander for Joint Interrogation Debriefing Center. Recalled telling COL Pappas of the OGA's activities, they would drop off detainees without prior notice, would not let the interviewee and others ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, Barbara G. Fast
Use of phobias, Other
May 24, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 784
This statement of an Army Major (0-4) who was a member of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade, V Corps in Iraq after February 2004 described the general operating procedures of the various intelligence detention facilities, including Abu ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Barbara G. Fast
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Other Humiliation
June 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 801
Major General Geoffrey D. Miller's sworn statement. Stated that he was in D.C. briefing the Deputy Secretary of Defense in May 2003 when he met with MG Ron Burgess and spoke with him about Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF GTMO) assisting with ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez, Barbara G. Fast, Donald H. Rumsfeld
Use of phobias, Nudity
June 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 804
Interviewee was the Senior Legal Advisor to LTG Sanchez from June 15, 2003 to May 15, 2004. Noted with respect to interrogations that "we didn't begin to formulate a CJTF-7 command policy until after MG Miller's visit. . . . I believe that MG ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Barbara G. Fast, Walter Wojdakowski, George R. Fay
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 805
Memo provides transcript from Procedure 15 interview of [redacted]. Described development of Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF-7) Policy to regulate interrogation operations. Stated, "[w]e wanted interrogation plans to be comprehensive and ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Barbara G. Fast, Thomas Pappas
DOD | ACLU-RDI 806
Interviewee was assigned to AG around January 2004 as the Operational Lawyer to the Combined Joint Task Force 7 staff. Described the development of the CJTF-7 policy to regulate interrogation operations, described understanding of Jan 2003 ICRC ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas, Janis Leigh Karpinski, George R. Fay
May 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 807
Interviewee, Barbara G. Fast's sworn statement regarding conditions in AG. MG Fast reported to Combined Joint Task Force 7 on July 29, 2003 assigned to C2 in Badgdad. Fast's statement provides a general description of AG environment (leadership, ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Barbara G. Fast, Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas, Walter Wojdakowski, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Use of phobias
July 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 808

[Partially unreadable] Interview of MG Barbara G. Fast's July 20, 2004 Statement re: AG. Interviewed by LTG Jones and MG Fay. Fay explained there was pressure for interrogators to perform, but stated did not believe there was pressure to ...

Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Barbara G. Fast, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Anthony R. Jones, George R. Fay, Stephen A. Cambone, Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Antonio Taguba, Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Janis Leigh Karpinski, L. Paul Bremer, Geoffrey D. Miller, Keith B. Alexander, Donald J. Ryder, Walter Wojdakowski, William G. Boykin, James R. Schlesinger, Albert T. Church, George R. Fay, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, John M. Custer, III, John P. Abizaid
Physical assault, Other