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.

Search Result (27)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
Apr. 27, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 749
Interviewee arrived to AG in October 2003 as a Civilian Interrogator. Reported seeing an MP shoot a detainee with a rubber bullet. Did not hear of requests to 'soften up' detainees. Did remember seeing and hearing dogs, and did hear that the ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Other
Apr. 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 755
Interviewee was the Platoon Sergeant for the 4th Platoon of the 372nd Military Police Company, he/she arrived on October 1, 2003. Recalled hearing about a soldier take a female detainee into the wood shack, but did not recall the specifics of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas
Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation
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
June 01, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 788
Interviewee was assigned to AG on November 04, 2007 as a member of the 1st Military Intelligence Brigade. Recounted an incident when new arrivals came to AG, stated as "I was standing there, one of the detainees tried to adjust the sandbag on ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez
Threat, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation
May 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 824
Interviewee was assigned to AG in early November 2003 as an interrogator. Interviewee discussed the use of dogs, but stated Lieutenant General (LTG) Sanchez' approval was necessary before used. Interviewee attested to using the dogs, stating, "I ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez
Physical assault, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
May 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 827
Memo contains notes from a Procedure 15 interview of official conducted by George Fay and [redacted]. In the memo, the interviewee stated he arrived to AG in early November 2003 as an interrogator. Stated he had no knowledge of detainee abuse, ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez, George R. Fay
Physical assault, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
DOD | ACLU-RDI 829
Interviewee was the Deputy CJ2 (length of assignment unknown). Interviewee provided that he/she was made aware of the following incidents: a detainee was walked back to his cell in the nude. The interviewee stated that he/she learned of the ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Barbara G. Fast, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
June 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 867
Sworn statement of Lieutenant Colonel with the 115th Military Police Battalion. The LTC recalled being aware of one incident where a soldier urinated on a detainee. He also recalled another incident where a detainee returned to the SP/CF area ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Buford Blount, III, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Thomas Pappas, Keith Dayton, Geoffrey D. Miller
Physical assault, General, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Other
June 04, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 868
Sworn statement of a Sergeant who arrived to Abu Ghraib prison at the end of July 2003 to December 16, 2003 with the advanced party as an interrogator. The Sgt recalled the use of unmuzzled dogs, along with loud music. He recalled interrogating ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez
Use of phobias, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual