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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Mar. 07, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2349
Summarized witness statement of a Major stationed at Guantanamo from February 2003 to January 2004 who supervised interrogations. The Major admits being aware of a number of incidents of detainee abuse, including a SFC's impersonation of a State ...
June 15, 2006
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
John T. Furlow
John T. Furlow
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Mar. 22, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2350
Summarized witness statement of a Lt. Col. who was the former Interrogation Control Element (ICE) Chief at Guantanamo for the first week in December 2002 and re-deployed at end of June 2003. When asked about detainee abuse alleged to have ...
June 15, 2006
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Geoffrey D. Miller, Donald H. Rumsfeld
SERE, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Temperature, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Feb. 09, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2351
Summarized witness statement of Sargent stationed at Guantanamo from August 2002 to February 2003. She was an interrogator with the Gulf States Team. The Sargent states that she may have touched a detainee or put my hand close to a detainee's ...
June 15, 2006
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
John T. Furlow
John T. Furlow
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Feb. 09, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2352
Summarized witness statement of a Sargent stationed at Guantanamo from August 2003 to February 2003. He was an interrogator for the Special Projects Team. The Sargent stated that during his interrogations he “never impersonated an FBI agent or ...
June 15, 2006
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
John T. Furlow
John T. Furlow
Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Manipulation of interrogator’s identity
Feb. 09, 2005 | DOA | SOUTHCOM | ACLU-RDI 2359
Summarized witness statement of a Sargent who was stationed at Guantanamo from August 2002 to February 2003 as an interrogator, however the Sargent stated that her “time was spent reviewing Memorandums for Record and draft interrogation plans ...
June 15, 2006
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
John T. Furlow
John T. Furlow
Sleep deprivation, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Oct. 10, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1869
The Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) interviewed two detainees at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to learn of camp conditions. The interview was conducted by the FBI and other agencies. One detainee explained that since being detained at ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Other Humiliation, Other
Oct. 30, 2002 | CID | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1871
The Criminal Investigation Task Force (CITF) interviewed two detainees at Camp Delta to learn of camp conditions. One detainee informed the interviewers that in response to the "mistreatment and injustice that he and his Muslim brothers have ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation, Religious
Nov. 26, 2002 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 1875
Memo summarizes an interview of a Camp Delta detainee. Present during the interview, which was conducted in Dari, was a Special Agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) and a DOD language specialist. The detainee stated that ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Sleep deprivation, Other Humiliation, Religious
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. 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