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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Testimony of Captain James G. Jones, Commander, 229th Military Police Company. Captain Jones described his background and how his unit was assigned to Iraq. He then offered the following: "I let everyone know that, although we were there to ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, James G. Jones
General, Physical assault
Testimony of Captain Michael A Mastrangelo, Commander, 310th Military Poice Company. Capt. Mastrangelo described his unit and how they were assigned to Iraq. He said “We were never in charge of any accountability while we there”. “I never had ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Michael A Mastrangelo
Testimony of Captain Lawrence Bush, Inspector General, 800th Military Police Brigade. Capt. Lawrence stated his job as "I am the eyes and ears for the commander. I try to test the climate to see if everything is fine, if it is not I report any ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Lawrence Bush, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Donald H. Rumsfeld
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 ...
Testimony of First Lieutenant Elvis Mabry, Aide de Camp to Brigadier General Karpinski, 800th Military Police Brigade. As it pertains to responsibility for the running of Abu Ghraib, 1st Lt. Mabry stated “It is my understanding that when the ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, Elvis Mabry, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Paul Hill, Ricardo Sanchez
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 Second Lieutenant David O. Sutton, Platoon Leader, 229th Military Police Company
Oct. 19, 2004
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, David D. McKiernan, David O. Sutton
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 ...
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 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 ...