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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
May 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4302
State Department cable from Kabul Embassy to Sec. of State re: Afghan Human Rights Chief. Amb. Khalilzad states that he discussed detainee issues with Sima Samar, Chairperson of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission.
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad
June 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3645
No relevant text.
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Richard A. Boucher, Frank E. Schmelzer , Mitchell B. Reiss, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad, William B. Taylor
May 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3649
DOS Cable-Action request for Kabul Embassy from Colin L. Powell requesting that the government provide access to the ICRC to visit all detainees under usual ICRC conditions.
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Pierre-Richard Prosper, JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan S. Carpenter, P. Michael McKinley, Richard A. Boucher, Mitchell B. Reiss, Colin L. Powell, Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad, Frank E. Schmelzer