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
Dec. 24, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2063
This is a Court-Martial of Staff Sergeant Peasgood who was accused of and pleaded guilty to mistreating, shocking and hitting three (3) Iraqi detainees with an M34 blasting device and stripped them of their clothing. His punishment is a ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Photograph, Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
General, Use of electricity, Cramped confinement, Physical assault
Oct. 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2076
This Army memorandum concerns dismissing certain charges against certain soldiers involved in detainee abuse to avoid Court-Martial proceedings and the legal consequences of such an action. The contents of the memo refers to the soldiers ...
Feb. 15, 2006
Legal Memo, Interview (Statement), UCMJ (Court-Martial)
Raymond Odierno
Raymond T. Odierno
Physical assault, Face slap or insult slap, General, Assault/death, Use of phobias, Threat
Jan. 17, 2003 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1878
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID, also, an Arabic linguist was present to translate. The detainee was uncooperative, he said it was because the Koran ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other Humiliation, Religious
Jan. 20, 2003 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1879
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID, also, an Arabic linguist was present to translate. The detainee stated his brother attempted suicide three days prior ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Isolation
Jan. 22, 2003 | NCIS | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1880
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and NCIS, also, an Arabic linguist was present to translate. The detainee mentioned that the guards were mishandling the Koran ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other Humiliation, Religious
Jan. 27, 2003 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1881
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID. The detainee discussed the reasons why he was recently placed in solitary confinement, he was confined because he ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Isolation, Other Humiliation, Religious
Jan. 29, 2003 | NCIS | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1882
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and NCIS. The detainee was questioned specifically about his capture by the Northern Alliance (some of the detainee's accounts ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Cramped confinement, Other
Jan. 30, 2003 | NCIS | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1883
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID, also, a DOD linguist was present to translate. The interviewers asked the detainee about rumors of a camp uprising. ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
Feb. 06, 2003 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1884
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the FBI and CID, also, a linguist was present to translate. The detainee previously refused to speak because he believed the guards did ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other Humiliation, Religious
Feb. 12, 2003 | USAF | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1885
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by two Special Agents with the Air Force (AFOSI) and the FBI, also, a Pashtu linguist was present to translate. The detainee explained that he previously lied to ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General