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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Feb. 17, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 288
Testimony of Master Sargent Andrew J. Lombardo, Operations Sergeant Major, 310th Military Police Battalion.MSG Lombardo described his understanding of the rights of detainees in custody the following way “Detainees have certain rights that you ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Andrew J. Lombardo
Other Humiliation, Religious
Feb. 20, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 285
Testimony of First Sergeant Dawn J. Rippelmeyer, 977th Military Police Company. 1st Sgt. Rippelmyer went over how she and her unit received their assignment and generally described the military discipline at Camp Bucca as lax and lacking military ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Dawn J. Rippelmeyer
Feb. 18, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 286
Testimony of Sergeant Major Mark Emerson, Operations Sergeant Major, 320th Military Police Battalion. Sergeant Major Mark Emerson was the Operations SGM for the 320th MP Battalion since 1999. He gave his impression of the Brigade’s operations and ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Mark Emerson, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Feb. 14, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 283
Testimony of Command Sargent Major Pascual Cartagena, 800th Military Police Battalion. CMS Cartagena stated “I was an Individual Replacement [to the 800th MP Brigade] I was not associated with the 800th MP Brigade prior to this assignment I have ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Pascual Cartagena, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Anthony Cavallaro
Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity
Feb. 15, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 284
Testimony of Command Sergeant Major Timonth L. Woodcock, 310th Military Police Battalion. CSM Woodcock related his impression of the unit by saying "The soldiers' standards that were lacking were in the common soldier task area. Specifically the ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Timonth L. Woodcock, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Feb. 22, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 281
Testimony of Chief Warrant Officer 2 Edward J. Rivas, 205th Military Intelligence Brigade assigned to the Iraqi Military Intelligence Requirement project (IMIR). CW2 Rivas stated that "I'm aware of the Geneva Convention, and I've received ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Edward J. Rivas, Ricardo Sanchez
Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Light or sound, Environmental manipulation
Feb. 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 282
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 ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Joseph P. Arrison, John P. Abizaid, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Thomas Pappas, Henry B. Nelson, Joseph P. Arrison
Feb. 09, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 279
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
Feb. 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 280
Testimony of Second Lieutenant David O. Sutton, Platoon Leader, 229th Military Police Company
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, David O. Sutton
Feb. 10, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 277
Testimony of First Lieutenant Lewis C. Raeder, Platoon Leader, 372nd Military Police Company. 1st LT. Raeder briefly described how his unit was deployed and then stated "We didn't receive any training at the MOB station; None of the training was ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Lewis C. Raeder, Donald J. Reese , Thomas Pappas
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity