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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June 09, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 805
Memo provides transcript from Procedure 15 interview of [redacted]. Described development of Combined Joint Task Force (CJTF-7) Policy to regulate interrogation operations. Stated, "[w]e wanted interrogation plans to be comprehensive and ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Barbara G. Fast, Thomas Pappas
DOD | ACLU-RDI 806
Interviewee was assigned to AG around January 2004 as the Operational Lawyer to the Combined Joint Task Force 7 staff. Described the development of the CJTF-7 policy to regulate interrogation operations, described understanding of Jan 2003 ICRC ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey D. Miller, Thomas Pappas, Janis Leigh Karpinski, George R. Fay
June 01, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 803
This statement of Major General Geoffrey D. Miller is a description of how he became aware of difficulties at Abu Ghraib prison and the measures and steps he took to address the matters as they presented to him. He described his discussions with ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Geoffrey D. Miller
Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Barbara G. Fast, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Thomas Pappas
Use of phobias, Nudity
June 18, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 804
Interviewee was the Senior Legal Advisor to LTG Sanchez from June 15, 2003 to May 15, 2004. Noted with respect to interrogations that "we didn't begin to formulate a CJTF-7 command policy until after MG Miller's visit. . . . I believe that MG ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Barbara G. Fast, Walter Wojdakowski, George R. Fay
May 17, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 800
This statement by Major General Walter Wojdakowski described Abu Ghraib prison environment and general roles of Sanchez, Karpinski and Pappas. There is no specific mention of abuse, and the document is very difficult to read due to poor image ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Walter Wojdakowski
Ricardo Sanchez, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Colonel Parrish, Barbara G. Fast, Walter Wojdakowski
June 19, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 801
Major General Geoffrey D. Miller's sworn statement. Stated that he was in D.C. briefing the Deputy Secretary of Defense in May 2003 when he met with MG Ron Burgess and spoke with him about Joint Task Force-Guantanamo (JTF GTMO) assisting with ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Statement)
Geoffrey D. Miller
Geoffrey D. Miller, Ronald L. Burgess, Jr., Thomas Pappas, Ricardo Sanchez, Barbara G. Fast, Donald H. Rumsfeld
Use of phobias, Nudity
June 21, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 802
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
June 20, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 798
Sworn statement taken on June 20, 2004 in Iraq. The interviewee described General Ricardo Sanchez's frustration regarding detainee operations and other issues about treatment of detainees.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Walter Wojdakowski, Ricardo Sanchez, Barbara G. Fast, Donald J. Ryder
DOD | ACLU-RDI 799
Sworn statement of an interviewee who was assigned to AG in early August 2003. Interviewee generally described Sanchez's frustration regarding detainee operations situation and other miscellaneous detainee operations issues.
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Ricardo Sanchez, Barbara G. Fast, Donald J. Ryder, Walter Wojdakowski
Feb. 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 796
Interviewee, an AR 15-6 Investigating Officer. The interviewee briefly referred to two violations, one involving a claim of abuse by two female detainees. The women's claim was not described by the interviewee, but they claimed abuse by three ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Antonio Taguba, Geoffrey D. Miller, Ricardo Sanchez
Physical assault, Other