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 26, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2565
Sworn statement by Chief Warrant Officer 2, an assistant detachment commander who participated in interrogations. This statement concerns a woman and her two (2) brothers who were captured in connection with anti-coalition attacks. One of the ...
June 26, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2566
Sworn statement by a medical sergeant. States, "I did not interrogate detainees. I was present for many interrogations.... I performed medical screenings on detainees all the time." Continues, "No detainee showed any sign of abuse and I never ...
Dec. 27, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2567
Statement of a Specialist First Class (SPF) in December 2003 concerning describing information derived from the interrogation of suspected resistance members in the Azimiyah area that incriminates family members as being a member of the ...
Dec. 27, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2568
Statement regarding a female detainee who was "detained for being the main financier of anti-Coalition activities in the Azimiyah area of Baghdad." States that detainee was "a known cell leader in the Azimiyah area" and gave money to her brothers ...
Dec. 28, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2569
Dicusses events leading to the detention of a "financier of resistance in Azimiya," who was "detained for being one of the overall coordinators of anti-Coalition activities." The detainee and two of her brothers were all arrested.
Jan. 11, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2570
Sworn statement; text is illegible.
June 26, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2571
Sworn statement by an intelligence Sergeant who also interrogated and screened detainees, describing the 2-3 FA BN detention facility and states that the two (2) brothers and sister detainees were held at the facility for 24 hours before being ...
June 28, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2572
Sworn statement by a Colonel with authority over detainee operations. He addresses the situation concerning an Iraqi family (2 Brothers & 1 Sister) that was arrested, detained and interrogated at Abu Ghrtaib prison. The Colonel states, "I'm ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
Stress positions
June 17, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2573
Sworn statement discussing interrogation procedures and techniques. States, "We used 'Mutt and Jeff' with one of them being assertive, but probably not more than 20% of the time." Continues, "Ninety-nine percent of the time if there was an injury ...
June 30, 2006
Interview (Statement)
SERE, Physical assault, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
June 17, 2004 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 2574
Sworn statement by a LCDR, Commander unit, discussing detainee processing and interrogation procedures at tactical interrogation facility. States, "What we consider the rule for holding detainees at our facility is no more than 72 hours," but ...