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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DOD | ACLU-RDI 829
Interviewee was the Deputy CJ2 (length of assignment unknown). Interviewee provided that he/she was made aware of the following incidents: a detainee was walked back to his cell in the nude. The interviewee stated that he/she learned of the ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Transcript)
Thomas Pappas, Barbara G. Fast, Janis Leigh Karpinski
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Use of phobias, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
DOD | ACLU-RDI 842
Memo discusses a follow-up to a statement previously given by [redacted]. The interviewee recalled in late October [redacted] requested to interrogate a detainee naked. Stated that [redacted] sought approval from [redacted].
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Nudity
DOA | ACLU-RDI 873
Sworn statement of a Chief Warrant Officer 3 (CW3) with A Company, 202d Military Intelligence Battalion who arrived Abu Ghraib prison on or about January 18, 2004. Interviewee described procedures dealing with hard copy packets of detainee files ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 884
Document is a transcript of a Staff Judge Advocate assigned to AG from November 26, 2003 to December 14, 2003. Described development of interrogation, the interrogation rules of engagement (IROE). Iraq interrogation policy "utilized Guantanamo ...
Mar. 03, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Ricardo Sanchez, Thomas Pappas, Geoffrey D. Miller, Janis Leigh Karpinski, Barbara G. Fast
Physical assault, Sexual, Use of phobias
DOA | ACLU-RDI 944
Army Action Plan re: Detainee Packet Checklist.
DOA | ACLU-RDI 945

Army Presentation re: Detention Operations for Collection and Handling of Detainees. Also gives "Issues," or problems within detainee operations, including "excessive detention period at BCTs," "All evidence not ...

DOA | ACLU-RDI 946
Army Action Plan re: Checklist for Brigade Level Detention Facilities regarding conditions/processes within detention facilities, as well as a form for "Overall Conditions of Facility"
DOD | ACLU-RDI 947
Coalition Provisional Authority Forces Apprehension Form. Standard form requesting information about the detainee and the circumstances surrounding his apprehension
DOA | ACLU-RDI 949
Army Detainee Packet Checklist
DOA | ACLU-RDI 950
Army Detainee Processing Flowchart and Checklist