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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Feb. 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3745
Email from JoAnn Dolan forwarding an email to Ed Cummings concerning Amb. Prosper's meeting in Stockholm with ICRC officials.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ed Cummings
Edward R. Cummings, David A. Kaye, Ronald W. Miller
Jan. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3749
Briefing memorandum from Alan Kreczko (PRM) to Under Secretary Paula Dobriansky re: meeting with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Delegation Urs Boegli and Deputy Head of Protectino Paul Bonard. Mostly redacted.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Alan Kreczko
Paula Dobriansky
Alan Kreczko, Paula J. Dobriansky
May 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3750
These are Five (5) State Department cables to Kabul and Geneva with "Subject: Response to International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC)". There is no other discernible information or context.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
Dec. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3751
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
Mar. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3755
This is a DOS Routing and Transmittal Slip for DOS Officials to initial - re: UK Detainees at Guantanamo Bay: Application for Judicial Review
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jonathan B. Schwartz
JoAnn J. Dolan | Ed Cummings | David Kaye
JoAnn J. Dolan, Evan T. Bloom, David W. Bowker, Edward R. Cummings, Andre M. Surena, David A. Kaye
Nov. 14, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3756
Email from Ed Cummings with attachment of a presentation entitled: The War Against Terrorism and Combatants for delivery to a Canadian delegation.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ed Cummings
James H. Thessin
James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Barbara Barret-Spencer
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3757
Ed Cummings presentation on the applicability of Geneva Convention in War Against Terror against non-state actors.
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Ed Cummings
Edward R. Cummings
Jan. 24, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3758
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees - 1/16
Nov. 17, 2004 | DOS | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3759
State Department presentation delivered by Adam Roberts, Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and Fellow of Balliol College, entitled "Counter-terrorism, Armed Force and the Laws of War."
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Adam Roberts
July 21, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3760
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees - 7/15/03