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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May 28, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4283
Email between Jeremy Caddel, John Gastright re: outstanding detainee cables. The comments from Mr. Caddel to Mr. Gastright are "All, Attached is a short cable to Kabul requesting reply to a couple of detainee cables that are outstanding. Request ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
John A. Gastright
Jeremy D. Caddel
John A. Gastright, Jeremy D. Caddel, Stewart M. Patrick, William B. Taylor, Patricia M. Haslach, Ronald W. Miller, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Torkel L. Patterson
May 28, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4284
Email between Ronald W. Miller Jeremy Caddel, John Gastright re: outstanding detainee cables. The comments from Mr. Caddel to Mr. Gastright are "All, Attached is a short cable to Kabul requesting reply to a couple of detainee cables that are ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
Jeremy D. Caddel
Ronald W. Miller, Jeremy D. Caddel, William B. Taylor, Patricia M. Haslach, John A. Gastright, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Stewart M. Patrick, Torkel L. Patterson
May 28, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4285
Email between Patricia M. Haslach, Jeremy Caddel, John Gastright re: outstanding detainee cables. The comments from Mr. Caddel to Mr. Gastright are "All, Attached is a short cable to Kabul requesting reply to a couple of detainee cables that are ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Patricia M. Haslach
Jeremy D. Caddel
Patricia M. Haslach, William B. Taylor, Ronald W. Miller, John A. Gastright, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Stewart M. Patrick, Torkel L. Patterson, Jeremy D. Caddel
May 28, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4286
Email between Patricia M. Haslach, Jeremy Caddel, John Gastright re: outstanding detainee cables. The comments from Mr. Caddel to Mr. Gastright are "All, Attached is a short cable to Kabul requesting reply to a couple of detainee cables that are ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Patrick M. Stewart
Jeremy D. Caddel
Stewart M. Patrick, Jeremy D. Caddel, William B. Taylor, Patricia M. Haslach, Ronald W. Miller, John A. Gastright, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Torkel L. Patterson
May 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4310
Fowarded message from Mark Lagon, Dep. Asst. Sec. Of State for International Organization Affairs states that Kim Holmes wated to see a final version of the edits to the US government submission on detainees to clear before it was dispatched.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Michael A. Butler
Winston E. Mann
Michael G. Kozak, Katherine M. Gorove, Mark P. Lagon
May 26, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3644
DOS Cable/letter from Colin L. Powell to ICRC President requesting access to the ICRC's confidential reports on visits to detention facilities in Iraq, Guantanamo and Afghanistan. The letter states that the reports will be disseminated, in strict ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Simone Whittemore, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Frank E. Schmelzer
May 26, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3832
Roundtable interview with Secretary of State, Colin L. Powell. On May 26. 2004, Mr. Powell answered a series of questions from journalists regarding allegations of detainee abuse in Afghanistan, Iraq and Guantanamo Bay.
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Frank E. Schmelzer , Antonio Taguba, Colin L. Powell, Richard Green Lugar, Tom Lantos, Henry J. Hyde, George W. Bush, Condoleeza Rice, Richard B. Cheney, Donald H. Rumsfeld, John D. Ashcroft
May 26, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4397
State Department cable summarizing a meeting between Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Rich Greene and Principal International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) officials in preparation for June 3-4 ICRC donor support group. Issues discussed ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Richard L. Greene, Kevin Edward Moley
May 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4065
Emails include a New York Times article entitled "U.S. Disputed Protected Status of Iraq Inmates." The article discusses the American government's adamant position that many detainees in Iraq are not entitled to the full protections of the Geneva ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
Edward R. Cummings
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Robert K. Harris, Edward R. Cummings, Thomas Malionek, Lance L. Smith, Darlyce M. Eley, William J. Gehron, Marc Warren
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Isolation, Nudity
May 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3750
These are Five (5) State Department cables to Kabul and Geneva with "Subject: Response to International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC)". There is no other discernible information or context.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Richard A. Boucher