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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Oct. 15, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3
Letter inquires about CIA's operations in Afghanistan. Makes formal request to visit CIA's facility at Bagram airbase and all other detention facilities in Afghanistan.
May 03, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 5
Letter regarding abuse of prisoners urging government to take steps in situation. Refers to Maj. Gen. Antonio Taguba's report regarding the inquiry into the abuses at Abu Ghraib.
May 18, 2004
Letter
Kenneth Roth
Condoleeza Rice
Condoleeza Rice, George J. Tenet, Antonio Taguba, William J. Haynes, II
Aug. 12, 1949 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 233
The Fourth Geneva Convention sets forth conduct in time of war.
Mar. 11, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3567
Associated Press article about Iran’s insistence that none of its citizens had been arrested in Afghanistan.
Nov. 23, 2004
Other
Condoleeza Rice
June 13, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3597
This is an article published in the Agence France-Presse concerning the release from Guantanamo of twenty-three (23) Afghanis back to Afghanistan and their journey back to their homes.
Jan. 06, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4638
Letter from International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) to Mike McKinley, Deputy Assistant U.S. Secretary of State re: Persons Detained in Afghanistan. The letter states "Dear Mike: Enclosed is an ICRC Verbal Note concerning the situation of ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Mike McKinley
John B. Bellinger, III, Mike McKinley
Sept. 06, 1999 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3183
Israel's Supreme Court held that the General Security Service is not authorized to employ certain investigation methods that involve the use of physical pressure against a suspect.
Dec. 13, 2001 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3208
This is a letter from an attorney representing a person detained by the U.S. to FBI Director Robert Mueller. In the letter the attorney states that he has reached out to DOD General Counsel William Hayne and Attorney General Ashcroft concerning ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
Robert S. Mueller
William J. Haynes, II, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John D. Ashcroft, Robert S. Mueller
Oct. 15, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4878
Fax cover sheet from Human Rights Watch/Asia to the CIA re: "We would very tioch appreciate if this Letter could be delivered to Director Tenet. A hard copy will also be mailed. Thank you very much." No attachments.
Dec. 15, 2004
Letter
George Tenet
George J. Tenet
June 14, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4288
Letter from William F. Schultz, Executive Director, Amnesty International to U.S. President George W. Bush re: Human Rights in Afghanistan.
Dec. 17, 2004
Letter
William F. Schultz
George W. Bush
George W. Bush