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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Feb. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3877
Talking points on transfer of Russian detainees from Guantanamo and assurances from Russia. This memo covers potential questions and appropriate answers for dealing with the press when asked about the Russian detainees held at Guantanamo. The key ...
Feb. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4098
Press release contains talking points on the transfer of seven Russian nationals from Guantanamo bay detention to the Russian government.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Theodore Sellin
Feb. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4173
Emails refer to a document apparently described as or entitled Jul 1 info paper. [Document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Todd F. Buchwald
Joshua L. Dorosin | James H. Thessin | William R. Gade | Hal H. Dronberger
William R. Gade, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, James H. Thessin, Harry R. Melone, Hal H. Dronberger
Feb. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4264
Email from Ronald Miller to Jeremy Caddel and ohers re: Revised BM for S - GTMO Detainees." No attachments included.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan | Robert Goldberg | Allen S. Greenberg | Jeremy D. Caddel
Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Allen S. Greenberg
Feb. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4693
Ms. Sanford attacheda document with notes on the Guantanamo detainee issue from the American Bar Association meeting of February 24, 2004 with the following comment: "Marc Bonora (an attorney at Kirkland Ellis and classmate of mine) and I ...
May 04, 2005
Email
Christina A. Sanford
Edward R. Cummings | Todd F. Buchwald | JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Christina A. Sanford
Feb. 23, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3640
This is a letter from Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ambassador-At-Large for War Crimes Issues, to Tausif Paracha regarding the Treatment of detainees in Afghanistan. In the letter Amb. Prosper states: Let me assure you... President Bush has affirmed on ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Tausif Paracha
George W. Bush, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Colin L. Powell
Feb. 20, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4032
Email from JoAnn Dolan re: Guantanamo Detainees and Other War Crimes Issues; no content (no attachment).
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Shahnaz Gheibi
JoAnn J. Dolan, Shahnaz Gheibi
Feb. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3825
DOS Cable discussing allegations that the U.S. Army abused prisoners at Guantanamo. An English newspaper, 'Bahrain Tribune,' reported that U.S. prison guards beat an ailing Bahraini detainee, Juma Al-Dossari.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Valerie C. Fowler, Karl W. Hofmann, William P. Marriott, Harry R. Melone, Charles L. Daris, Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush, Ronald E. Neumann, C. David Welch, Stephen Bondy
Juma Mohammed Abdul Latif al Dosari
Physical assault, General
Feb. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3950
This email from JoAnn Dolan forwardeding a transcript of UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's statements regarding UK citizens detained at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | Ronald W. Miller | Thomas Dukes | Ed Cummings | James H. Thessin | Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, Thomas Dukes, Karen L. Hecker, James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Laura H. Parsky
Feb. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4658
State Department memo re: Subject: PCC Meeting. Mr. Hoffman's comments are "SUBJECT: PCC Meeting Please transmit the attached memorandum to principals of the Policy Coordination Committee (PCC) on Europe and Eurasia." No additional comments.
May 18, 2005
Letter
Karl Hofmann
Gregory L. Schulte | I. Lewis Libby | V. Philip Lago | Paul W. Curry | James N. Solit
Karl W. Hofmann, Gregory L. Schulte, I. Lewis Libby, V. Philip Lago, Paul W. Curry, James N. Solit, David W. Szady, Laura L. Flippin , James A. McAtamney, William P. Marriott, Edward W. Snead, Fred Schwien, Douglas Aller, David Hegwood, Ann Agnew, Dianna Campagna, Michael F. O'Brien