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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Dec. 23, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3743
Letter from International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Delegation, Christophe Girod to Mike McKinley, DOS re: Visit to Guantanamo Bay, August 18-October 10, 2003. The letter reference an attachment that is a confidential "Working ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Christophe Girod
Mike McKinley
Mike McKinley, Geoffrey D. Miller, Benjamin R. Mixon, Charles A. Allen, John B. Bellinger, III, Shirin Tahir-Kheli, William Howard Taft, IV
May 03, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3748
Letter from Christophe Girod, Head of Regional Delegation for International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), to Mike McKinley, Deputy Asst Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), accompanying ICRC working paper on sixth visit ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Christophe Girod
Mike McKinley
Mike McKinley, Jay W. Hood, William Howard Taft, IV, Charles A. Allen, John B. Bellinger, III, Shirin Tahir-Kheli, Benjamin R. Mixon
Jan. 06, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4638
Letter from International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) to Mike McKinley, Deputy Assistant U.S. Secretary of State re: Persons Detained in Afghanistan. The letter states "Dear Mike: Enclosed is an ICRC Verbal Note concerning the situation of ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Mike McKinley
John B. Bellinger, III, Mike McKinley