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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DOD | ACLU-RDI 1344
Questionnaire entitled "Point of Capture- CDR 1SG/PL/PS" (in this questionnaire "CDR" is circled). The questionnaire asks the Captain [name redacted] a total of 41 questions regarding training and his/her execution of that training. ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1346
Questionnaire entitled "Point of Capture- CDR 1SG/PL/PS." The questionnaire asks the First Lieutenant [name redacted] a total of 41 questions regarding training and his/her execution of that training. Questionnaire primarily focuses on detainee ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1347
Questionnaire entitled "Point of Capture- CDR 1SG/PL/PS." The questionnaire asks the First Lieutenant [name redacted] a total of 41 questions regarding training and their execution of that training. Questionnaire primarily focuses on detainee ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1348
Questionnaire entitled "Point of Capture- CDR 1SG/PL/PS." The questionnaire asks the Master Sergeant [name redacted] a total of 41 questions regarding training and his/her execution of that training. Questionnaire primarily focuses on detainee ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1355
Questionnaire asked the officer forty one questions regarding soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The interviewee stated, "ROE [Rules of Engagement] training was simple, but it was fuzzy when they first got." Described incident ...
July 15, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Physical assault, General
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1358
Page has "4ID" handwritten in the center.
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1360
Questionnaire asked the officer thirty seven questions regarding soldier training and the treatment of detainees. [Contents redacted].
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1361
Questionnaire asked the officer thirty seven questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Soldier stated the training they received prior to deployment did not correspond with their duties to conduct ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1362
Questionnaire asked the officer forty four questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Officer stated they received "no credible training" on detainee in processing (operations). [Contents redacted].
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1365
Questionnaire asked the interviewee twenty-three questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Official described the "command climate" and guidance they received as a "half ass." [Contents redacted].