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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DOS | ACLU-RDI 4443
State Department memo with takling points on issues of the day entitled "Background on Key Issues". Content redacted. Mentions comments by A Lindh criticizing detention policies
Dec. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4444
Email from Michael Corbin to JoAnn Dolan forwarding a cable from Ambassador Neumann concerning Bahrain's press front paged and headline on November 24 and the the Prime Minister's raising the Guantanamo detainee issue with "CODEL Issa". The ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Michael H. Corbin
JoAnn J. Dolan
Michael H. Corbin, Ronald E. Neumann, JoAnn J. Dolan
Jan. 12, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4445
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Jan. 12, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Mar. 28, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4446
State Department Cable Subject: March 21 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo – No additional information or context.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
May 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4447
State Department Cable Subject: May 9 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo – No additional information or context.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
May 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4448
State Department Cable Subject: May 9 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo – No additional information or context.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
June 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4449
State Department Cable re: Secretary's July 16, 2003 Conversation with Australian Foreign Minister Downer - No other content or context.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
July 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4450
State Department Cable re: July 18 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo – No other content or context
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
July 30, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4451
State Department Cable re: Corrected Information Regarding Nationally of Detainees at Guantanamo – no other content or context
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
Oct. 30, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4452
State Department Cable re: October 18 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo – no other content or context.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher