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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
May 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 667
Sworn statement of sergeant at Abu Ghraib including a description of his surprise that "certain approaches" were acceptable. He witnessed a detainee left in cold temperatures without clothes or a blanket and with untreated wounds. The sergeant ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Barbara G. Fast, Ricardo Sanchez
Use of water, Other, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Forced grooming, Other
June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 691
Telephone interview of [redacted] arrived in AG on October 20, 2003. Was made section leader of for the Force Protection Tiger Team. Recalled seeing detainees mopping the floors, saw civilian clothed men (told they were Iraqi Police) leading ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Abdul Rauf Aliza
Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced grooming, Other
May 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 716
Unknown interviewee was assigned to AG to establish connectivity of computers. Recalled an incident where an MI explained to an interrogator that a detainee was unavailable for interrogation because he had been interrogated for 10 hrs, stripped ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Other
Jan. 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 717
Unknown interviewee provided a sworn statement in which he/she recalled incidents that took place at AG. The interviewee reported only overhearing things, not actually observing anything. Recalled a woman, a National Guard who recounted numerous ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Isolation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced physical training, Other
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
DOD | ACLU-RDI 781
Interviewee was assigned to AG in early October as a the day shift Supervisor of Tier 1-3. Stated that he/she was unaware of detainee abuse and photos until it was reported on TV. Did recall, in mid-December "[o]ne day as I was walking the hard ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Physical assault, Use of electricity, Use of phobias, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Other
June 05, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 792
Sworn statement regarding detainee abuse. The interviewee identified an individual in a photo stating he always carried a K-bar knife and stated that "the death of the detainee was from integration from MI. She told me it was listed as a heart ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Use of phobias, Other Humiliation, Other
May 06, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 793
Sworn statement regarding detainee abuse. The interviewee identified an individual in a photo stating he always carried a K-bar knife and stated that "the death of the detainee was from integration from MI. She told me it was listed as a heart ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Use of phobias, Other Humiliation, Other
May 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 839
Interviewee was assigned to AG in mid-October 2003 as a member of the Fusion Analysis Cell; interviewee had Top Secret Clearances. Recalled an incident occurring in the hard site, where the MPs had two detainees in the middle of the cell, naked, ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Steven L. Jordan
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced physical training, Other
Aug. 03, 2004 | CID | ACLU-RDI 30
Detainee alleged that he was arrested by U.S. forces and placed in a hole in the ground with other detainees at an unknown location in Samara, Iraq for about three days, then threatened with death and taken to a room where he was placed on a box ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Use of water, Other, Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Forced grooming, Other