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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Jan. 20, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 711
Interviewee was a member of the Internal Reaction Force, on stand-by for any future incidents at Abu Ghraib prison. On the evening of the riot, the Spc. recounted an incident of abuse, stated: "We were told a prisoner gained access to a handgun ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, General, Nudity, 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
Jan. 31, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 721
This sworn statement by a Corporal, interrogator assigned to the 325th Military Intelligence Battalion and the 205th Military Intelligence Battalion. Explained that detainees would be brought to him either in handcuffs or not, would request that ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Use of water, Other, Stress positions, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Forced physical training, Other
May 28, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 728
Interviewee was assigned to AG as an Assistant with the 325th Military Intelligence Brigade. Stated: "There was an extraordinary amount of pressure from the chain of command to get results. . . . They would raid a house and take everyone. They ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Steven Boltz, Barbara G. Fast, Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Walter Wojdakowski, Colonel Summers
Other
May 21, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 787
This statement by an Army Captain with the 519th Military Intelligence Battalion was at several operating bases in Iraq and specifically at Camp Victory Bushmaster, Dogwood and Abu Ghraib Prison on or about July 23, 2003. The Capt. stated that ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez
Use of water, Physical assault, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other
May 14, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 797
This statement of the Lieutenant Colonel in charge of the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade discusses his assumption of command of the military intelligence operations component at Abu Ghraib prison in July 2003. He discusses his chain of ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Walter Wojdakowski, Ricardo Sanchez, Steven Boltz, Geoffrey D. Miller, Barbara G. Fast, Donald J. Ryder, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Physical assault, Sexual, General, Sleep deprivation, Other Humiliation, Other
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
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