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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Memo discusses interviews conducted by MG Fay regarding unauthorized photographs. States that a thumb drive was found in the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center (JIDC) with disturbing images on it. The interviewee reported he/she advised ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George R. Fay
This sworn statement by a Major was the Commander of the 325th Military Intelligence (MI) Battalion (BN), in Iraq that had Abu Ghraib Prison as one of the facilities in his portfolio of responsibility. He stated "In Jun 03. B Co moved to Camp ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller, George R. Fay
Use of phobias, Nudity
This sworn statement is a firsthand account of an Army Corporal with the 325 Military Intelligence Battalion who witnessed detainees at Abu Ghraib prison stripped naked, made to do physical training (PT) and humiliated. This Corporal stated that ...
This is a Memo For the Record concerning an interview condensed to a statements made by a CACI analyst about his observations at Abu Ghraib. He states he arrived at the prison on December 16, 2003 and was given some of the rules for handling ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Statement, Summaries/Notes)
George R. Fay, Thomas Pappas
Interviewee was the Team Chief of the Tiger Team from GTMO assigned to AG. Vaguely recalled discussion of an incident in which an interpreter walked out of an interrogation.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, George R. Fay
Other
Memo provides information regarding the interview of an official. Official refused to sign her statement.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
George R. Fay
This is the second statement given by this Soldier/Interrogator concerning his observations and activities at Abu Ghraib prison. He states that he did in-fact witness Military Police and Interrogators "slap" and roughly handle detainees, ...
Document reads "NO COPY OF STATEMENT BY[REDACTED] IS PRESENT ON THE CD COPY OF THE JONES-FAY-KERN REPORT"
Mar. 03, 2005
Other
Anthony R. Jones, George R. Fay, Paul J. Kern
Interviewee worked in in-screeing and interrogation operations. Recalled an incident at Camp Cropper Baghdad International Airport, where interrogators with teh 519th MI Brigade put a detainee in a stress position, he was on his knees with his ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, George R. Fay, Ricardo Sanchez
Physical assault, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Nudity, Other Humiliation
Memo provides information from a June 19, 2004 interview of MG Miller. Stated that Fay interviewed Miller on 19 June 2004 and that Miller provided a statement which was recorded by [redacted]. Miller would not sign the statement and stated ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Transcript)
George R. Fay, Geoffrey D. Miller