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 01, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3913
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
JoAnn J. Dolan
June 30, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3914
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
JoAnn J. Dolan
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3915
State Department talking points memo on addressing the criticism over Guantanamo Bay detentions. The memo states that "Criticism is particularly strong in Europe and the Middle East. [The] Europeans have objected to the detention of [their] ...
Jan. 27, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3916
DOS Cable concerning Secretary Powell's Meeting with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) President Kellenberger. The document is heavily redacted as to the substance of the meeting, except for a brief summary stating that the meeting ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell, Deborah Graze, Richard A. Boucher, Craig A. Kelly
Oct. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3917
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Brian Leventhal concerning a CBS Evening News segment that highlighted the release of a 90 year-old Afghani man being released from detention at Guantanamo. The report stated that the man was mistakenly pick up during a ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Brian H. Leventhal
Brian H. Leventhal, JoAnn J. Dolan
Oct. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3918
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
Oct. 10, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3919
State Department Routing and Transmittal Slip from Evan T. Bloom to William Howard Taft, IV re: Papers for your review Amb. Prosper would like to send this out to other agencies for clearance this afternoon.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Evan T. Bloom
William Howard Taft, IV
Evan T. Bloom, William Howard Taft, IV, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Jan. 19, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3920
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: May 1 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3921
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: May 1 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3922
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: January 22 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.