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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Report of investigation into the abuse and mock execution of Iraqi civilians by a U.S. soldier on two separate occasions. Investigation established that the soldier committed the offenses of assault, conspiracy, release of a detainee without ...
Oct. 15, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph, Interview (Statement)
Threat, Assault/death
This is the transcript of Gen. Taguba’s deposition of Gen. Pappas re: Abu Ghraib prison. It contains specific Q&A’s about responsibility for the security and different elements of prison/base operations. Abuse of detainees is brought out as well ...
Lt. Col. Edwards was a force provider to the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center. His was an Interrogation Company. It provided interrogators & analyst to the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center, otherwise known as the JIDC. He also ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Thomas Pappas, James T. Edwards, Kinard J. La Fate , Timothy A. Weathersbee, James D. Edwards
Testimony of Major David W. DiNenna, 320th Military Police Battalion. Major DiNenna stated his job was "I'm essentially responsible for accomplishing the mission according to the commander's intent". As for the treatment of prisoners under his ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, David W. DiNenna, Sr.
The interview is summarized as follows: This matter of proceeding is a formality because Lieutenant Colonel Jerry L. Phillabaum invoked his rights, and is seeking legal counsel. The panel briefed Lieutenant Colonel Jerry L. Phillabaum on the ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Jerry Phillabaum
Testimony of First Lieutenant Warren E. Ford II, Headquarters Company Commander, 320th Military Police Battalion. 1st Lt. Ford described his job duties as follows: "My role is basically to train for the unit's mission; prepare for deployment; ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Warren E. Ford II, Jerry Phillabaum
Testimony of Command Sergeant Major Joseph P. Arrison, 320th Military Police Battalion. CMS Arrison was not originally deployed with his unit and was “held back” at Ft. Dix and in the rear in Iraq when the incidents of detainee abuse that ...
Testimony of Sergeant First Class Keith A. Comer, 372nd Military Police Company. SFC Comer described that he came in to his position as the Company's 1st Sargent because the previous 1st Sargent has been suspended from his duties pending the ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Keith A. Comer, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Isolation
This letter is a follow-up to previous letters sent to Canadian Foreign Affairs officials concerning Mr. Omar Ahmed Khadr, a Guantanamo Bay Detainee. The letter requests that the Canadian Department of Foreign. Affairs and International Trade ...
June 08, 2005
Letter
Nathan J. Whitling
Bill Graham
Omar Ahmed Khadr
This document is the CIA's copy of the sworn statement of an anonymous military personnel from the 1st Battalion 5th Special Forces Group, which is included in CID Report 0027-03-CID679-64999 released by the DOD. The CIA version contains ...
Jan. 14, 2014
Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes), UCMJ
Abed Hamed Mowhoush