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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Mar. 06, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 2404
Letter from Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch to Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asking that U.S. government release all detainees from Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Roth states detaining persons at Guantanamo Bay violates ...
June 15, 2006
Letter
Kenneth Roth
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Jan. 07, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 2412
Irene Khan the Secretary General of Amnesty International writes to Secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld condemning the use of hoods when transporting and interrogating detainees. Ms. Khan states that the hooding and blindfolding of detainees is ...
June 15, 2006
Letter
Irene Khan
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Jan. 22, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 2413
Javier Zuniga of Amnesty International letter to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld asking for permission for an Amnesty International delegation to visit Guantanamo Bay detention facility "to observe the conditions under which prisoners are detained ...
June 15, 2006
Letter
Javier Zuniga
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 18, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 2414
Letter is from Mile Florence Rinaldi of Amnisty International in France to Sec. Def. Rumsfeld in conjunction with Amnesty International's memo on rights of detainees in custody. The letter’s author"Urges" the Secretary to "ensure detainees held ...
June 15, 2006
Letter
Mile Florence Rinaldi
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Mile Florence Rinaldi
July 06, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 2415
Letter is from Mile Florence Rinaldi of Amnisty International in France to Sec. Def. Rumsfeld in conjunction with Amnesty International's memo on rights of detainees in custody. The letter’s author"Urges" the Secretary to "ensure detainees held ...
June 15, 2006
Letter
Mile Florence Rinaldi
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Mile Florence Rinaldi
Dec. 26, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3929
This letter from Kenneth Roth the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch, to President Bush concerns a Washington Post article dated December 26, 2002 alleging of torture of suspected Al-Qaeda detainees held in U.S. custody. Mr. Roth states "if ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Kenneth Roth
George W. Bush | Colin L. Powell | Donald H. Rumsfeld | Condoleeza Rice
George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice
Mar. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3988
DOS Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmission Report re: Guantanamo Detainees. The recipients are Sec. Def. Rumsfeld, NSA Advisor Rice and Andrew Card.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell
Donald H. Rumsfeld | Condoleeza Rice | Andrew Card
Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4316
Letter from Lawyers Against Torture to President George W. Bush re" Lawyer's Statement on Bush Administration's Torture Memos stating that the torture memoranda circumvent long established and universally acknowledged principles of law and common ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Letter
George W. Bush | Richard B. Cheney | Donald H. Rumsfeld | Ashley A. Larsen
George W. Bush, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Richard B. Cheney, John D. Ashcroft
Jan. 22, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 3625
DOS cover sheet, states that a letter to Donald Rumsfeld requesting permission for an Amnesty delegation to visit the Guantanamo base in Cuba is attached.
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Javier Zuniga, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Frank E. Schmelzer