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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May 13, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 761
This is the second statement given by this Soldier/Interrogator concerning his observations and activities at Abu Ghraib prison. He states that he did in-fact witness Military Police and Interrogators "slap" and roughly handle detainees, ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
George R. Fay
Use of water, Water dousing, Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, Attention grasp, Assault/death, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Light or sound, Nudity, Threat, Environmental manipulation
Feb. 12, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 748
This sworn statement is a firsthand account of an Army Corporal with the 325 Military Intelligence Battalion who witnessed detainees at Abu Ghraib prison stripped naked, made to do physical training (PT) and humiliated. This Corporal stated that ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
George R. Fay
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Threat, Assault/death, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced physical training
May 27, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 739
This sworn statement by a Major was the Commander of the 325th Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion (BN), in Iraq that had Abu Ghraib Prison as one of the facilities in his portfolio of responsibility. He stated "In Jun 03. B Co moved to Camp ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller, George R. Fay
Use of phobias, Nudity
May 19, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 715
Interviewee was the Deputy Commander of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade at the end of July 2003 in AG. Sworn statement included the following incidents, first, involved a "A/519th soldiers who conducted inappropriate interrogations of a ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, George R. Fay
Use of phobias, Nudity
June 16, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 674
A Military Intelligence Officer was interviewed at Camp Victory by Major General Fay in regards to interrogation plans in place at Abu Ghraib Prison in 2003. The deponent discussed his arrival at Abu Ghraib and the duties he performed while ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript, Statement)
George R. Fay
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity
May 28, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 663

Interview intended to "clarify possibly conflicting statements concerning detainees being stripped naked and held in cells in the 1A area." Stated that stripping detainees "might have been an interrogation tactic that could ...

Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Ricardo Sanchez, George R. Fay
Nudity, Other Humiliation, Other
May 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 660
This document is the condensed notes of an interview of at Screener in Abu Ghraib Prison from Mid-December 2003 through January 2004. The interview is a verbatim rendition of the Screener’s statement and it is noted that the statement is to be ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
George R. Fay
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, Walling, Sexual, General, Use of electricity, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious, Other
Aug. 31, 2004 | DOA | OJAG | ACLU-RDI 467

An email between members of the Staff Judge Advocate, forwarding a Washington Post article titled "Documents Helped Sow Abuse, Army Report Finds," from August 30, 2004.

Mar. 23, 2005
Email
Ricardo Sanchez, Paul J. Kern, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Alberto Mora, Geoffrey D. Miller, George W. Bush, John P. Abizaid, George R. Fay, Thomas Pappas
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Religious
May 07, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 357

Transcript of the testimony of Donald Rumsfeld, Gen. Richard Myers (chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff), Les Brownlee (acting sec. of the Army), Gen. Peter Shoomaker (Army Chief of Staff), and Lt. Gen. Lance Smith (U.S. Central Command dep. ...

Dec. 31, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
John Warner, Carl Levin, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Richard B. Myers, Romie Leslie Brownlee, Peter Schoomaker, Lance L. Smith, Antonio Taguba, Alberto R. Gonzales, Joseph Darby, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, John P. Abizaid, George R. Fay, John McCain, Edward M. Kennedy, Pat Roberts, Robert C. Byrd, Alan Wayne Allard, Joe Lieberman, Jeff Sessions, Ricardo Sanchez, Jack Reed, Geoffrey D. Miller, Sue Collins, Daniel Akaka, Lindsey Graham, Bill Nelson, Paul Wolfowitz, John Ensign, Jim Talent, Saxby Chambliss, Elizabeth Dole, Ben Nelson, Mark Dayton, Evan Bayh, Hillary Clinton, Mark Pryor, William Frist
Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
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