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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Aug. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3996
Letter from Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador, to Professor Bassiouni responding to a request from Prof. Bassiouni to Amb. Danforth relating to travel to Afghanistan.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Anne Patterson
Anne Woods Patterson, John Claggett Danforth
Sept. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3998
DOS Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmittal Slip: Summary of Conclusions for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees - 9/14/04
Feb. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3999
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Request to Interview Detainees at Guantanamo.
Mar. 05, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4000
DOS Fax Cover Sheet from Karl Hoffman to William Marriott re: Request for Team to Visit Detainees at Guantanamo
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Karl Hofmann
William P. Marriott
Karl W. Hofmann, William P. Marriott
Sept. 21, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4001
State Department cable concerning the transfer of Yaser Esam Hamdi from US custody to Saudi Arabia as reported in the newspapers.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Yaser Esam Hamdi
Nov. 27, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4003
Email from Todd Buchwald to David Kaye re: IM to S on Detainee Rights. Detainee Rights attachment not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Todd F. Buchwald
David A. Kaye
Todd F. Buchwald, David A. Kaye
July 05, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4004
Email from Darlene Namahoe with Beverly Holman as a recipient re: Litigation Involving Detainees. Confidential attachment not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Darlene Namahoe
Beverly S. Holman
Beverly S. Holman
Aug. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4005
Email from David Bowker to Joshua Dorosin and Todd Buchwald re: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) report on detainees, attachment not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald
David W. Bowker, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald
May 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4008
This email is a copy of the press release of the remarks of Sec. Powell and Foreign Minister Fischer concerning Iraq in the context of a new UN resolution that will be required to move forward to returning full sovereignty back to the Iraqis; ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan B. Schwartz
Ed Cummings | JoAnn J. Dolan | Todd F. Buchwald
Colin L. Powell, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Todd F. Buchwald, Condoleeza Rice, Antonio Taguba, L. Paul Bremer, Donald H. Rumsfeld
July 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4009
Email from Andrew Sagor to Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Robin H. Sakoda and Cara L. Abercrombie re: Clearance/comments needed on red response letter, with an attachment not included. Mr. Sagor's comments are "S/WC1 has been tasked to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Andrew E. Sagor
Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | Cara L. Abercrombie | Robin H. Sakoda
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Robin H. Sakoda, Cara L. Abercrombie