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. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5892
This DOS Cable is to the US Mission in Geneva Switzerland to respond to the human rights organization Amnesty International with a letter describing the US position concerning the detention & treatment of detainees in the War on Terror.
May 05, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5893
This DOS Cable is from the US Embassy in Damascus, Syria to the DOS Washington with a summary of media reactions in Damascus to US policies & other matters.
June 02, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5894
This DOS Cable is from the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan to the DOS Washington with a summary of media reactions in Islamabad US policies & other matters.
Aug. 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5895
This is a Cable from the US Mission Geneva about a letter and Questionnaire they received from five (5) special rapporteurs conducting an investigation on Guantanamo detainees. The questionnaire contains forty-five (45) questions under the ...
Apr. 21, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5886
This DOS Cable is from the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan to the DOS Washington with a summary of media reactions in Pakistan to US policies & other matters.
May 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5887
This DOS Cable is from the US Embassy in Brussels, Belgium to the DOS Washington with a summary of media reactions in Brussels US policies & other matters.
May 06, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 5888
This DOS Cable is from the US Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan to the DOS Washington with a summary of media reactions in Islamabad US policies & other matters.
June 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5889
This DOS Cable is from the US Embassy in Damascus, Syria to the DOS Washington with a summary of media reactions in Damascus to US policies & other matters.
July 06, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 5891
This letter from Sen. Patrick Leahy to Secretary of State Colin Powell requests information concerning the arrest, detention & interrogation of persons captured in the War on Terror since September 11, 2001.
Oct. 28, 2011
Letter
Senator, Patrick Leahy
Secretary of State, Colin Powell
Patrick Leahy, Colin L. Powell
Mar. 18, 2003 | WH | ACLU-RDI 5885
This DOS Cable to the US Mission, Geneva, Switzerland outlining the US position concerning the care, treatment & transfer of detainees captured and detained in the War on Terror and are in US custody.
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable
Kim R. Holmes
Kim R. Holmes, George W. Bush