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 03, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4656
Email from JoAnn Dolan forwarding an email from the London mission from containing a letter from an attorney representing a detainee held at Guantanamo. The email from Ms. Dolan to Ms. Davidson is redacted, but the letter attached below.
Jan. 02, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Eliana Davidson
JoAnn J. Dolan, Eliana Davidson
Dec. 02, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3681
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.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3682
State Department talking Points on relating to detainees at Guantanamo and the burden of bearing the sole responsibility for the War on Terror.
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3683
Questions for Secretary of State Colil Powell from Ben Barber, American Legion Magazine, with Powell's answers re: decision to deny POW status to detainees, status as enemy combatants, foreign criticism of this decision, etc
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Colin L. Powell
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3685
This State Department fact sheet of Guantanamo detainees, listing total number in custody, reasons for US authority to detain them, their status under the Geneva convention, their treatment and transfer to foreign governments also serves as a ...
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3687
DOS Memo re: Talking Points and Issue Paper on Guantanamo Detainees. Statement of US position on Guantanamo detainees stating that: i) detainees are treated humanely; ii) detainees are not POWs; and iii) US is working with other countries whose ...
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3688
DOS Memo re: Talking Points on Release of Photo of Guantanamo Detainees.
Jan. 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3689
DOS Memo re: Talking Points on Guantanamo Detainees Treatment and Status. Memo states i) all detainees are treated humanely; ii) they are very dangerous people; iii) International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) has access to them; and iv) ...
Jan. 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3690
DOS Memo re: Talking Points on Guantanamo Detainees Treatment and Status. Memo states i) all detainees are treated humanely; ii) they are given three (3) culturally appropriate meals a day; iii) International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) ...
May 28, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3691
DOS Memo re: Talking Points on Guantanamo Detainees Treatment and Status. Memo states i) all detainees are treated humanely; ii) they are given three (3) culturally appropriate meals a day; iii) International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) ...