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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Questionnaire asked the Lieutenant Colonel forty-two questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. Officer described an incident in which a detainee was cuffed inside a building inside the wire and was ...
July 15, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Other
Questionnaire asked the official a series of questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. When asked to describe training and preparation prior to deployment, official responded, "None-no fit ...
July 15, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Isolation, Other
An Army questionnaire including forty-six questions given to a solider regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. The handwritten responses are mostly illegible or redacted. The soldier stated in part, however, ...
July 15, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Other
US Army soldier was asked forty-six questions regarding soldier training, soldier morale and the treatment of detainees. When answering the question about how to handle different categories of detainees, Official wrote that he "was not educated ...
July 15, 2005
Interview (Questionnaire)
Physical assault, General, Sleep deprivation, Other