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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Apr. 07, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 2405

This fax contains a response letter to The Human Rights watch Ex. Dir. Kenneth Roth addressing his points made in an earlier letter to Sec. Def. Rumsfeld about releasing Taliban armed forces from Guantanamo since the war in Afghanistan is ...

June 15, 2006
Letter
William J. Haynes, II
William Howard Taft, IV | Scott W. Muller | John C. Yoo | John Bellinger
William J. Haynes, II, John C. Yoo, Scott W. Muller, William Howard Taft, IV, John B. Bellinger, III
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4674
State Department cover sheet for delivery of documents re: PCC Meeting on Detainees
June 08, 2005
Other
John Bellinger
JoAnn J. Dolan | Pierre-Richard Prosper | Anthony Fortune
John B. Bellinger, III, JoAnn J. Dolan, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, Anthony Fortune, Jay Alan Liotta, Bruce Swartz, Diane E. Beaver, Eliana Davidson, Patrick Rowan
July 07, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 4692
White House Cover Sheet re: Detainees - International Committee of the Red Cross
June 08, 2005
Letter
John Bellinger
William Howard Taft, IV | Patrick Philbin | William J. Haynes, II
John B. Bellinger, III, William J. Haynes, II, William Howard Taft, IV, Patrick Philbin
Mar. 18, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4706
This fax cover sheet is from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office - British Embassy, Washington sent by Robert Macaire to John Bellinger with the message:"I attach a copy of an internal record of the unsuccesa(ul application for judicial review of ...
June 08, 2005
Letter
Robert Macaire
John Bellinger
John B. Bellinger, III, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Bruce Swartz
June 01, 2004 | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4710
National Security Council fax cover sheet from John Bellinger to William Howard Taft, IV. No attachments or context.
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger
William Howard Taft, IV
John B. Bellinger, III, William Howard Taft, IV
June 20, 2002 | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4711
NSC Fax Cover Sheet re: Agenda for Thursday, June 20, 2002. No additional comments. No attachments.
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger
Eliana Davidson | Daniel Dell'Orto | Matt Vaccaro
John B. Bellinger, III, Daniel Dell'Orto, Eliana Davidson, Robert A. Spencer, Daniel P. Collins, Mary Incontro, Bruce Swartz, William Howard Taft, IV, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Elliott Abrams
June 18, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4715

National Security Council fax cover page with the message: "Please review and provide any comnments/clearance by noon on Monday, June 21, 2004. Thank you," sent by John B. Bellinger, III. No additional comments or attachments.

June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger
William J. Haynes, II | William Howard Taft, IV | Jack L. Goldsmith | Patrick Philbin | Alberto Gonzalez | David S. Addington
John B. Bellinger, III, William J. Haynes, II, William Howard Taft, IV, Jack L. Goldsmith, Patrick Philbin, Alberto R. Gonzales, David S. Addington
Jan. 25, 2002 | NSC | ACLU-RDI 4718
National Security Council Fax Cover Sheet with the comment "Here is an Advanced Copy of the Memorandum That Will Be Sent to Your Principals Later This Afternoon." No further comments. No attachments.
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger
William Howard Taft, IV | Jane Dalton | James H. Thessin
John B. Bellinger, III, William Howard Taft, IV, James H. Thessin, Jane Dalton
DOS | ACLU-RDI 4722
This document consists of seven (7) fax cover sheets from the State Department to State Department Officials concerning Prosecution and Detention of Al-Qaeda and Taliban Detainees. No attachments or details of the underlying fax documents.
June 08, 2005
Letter
Evan T. Bloom
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Evan T. Bloom, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Daniel Dell'Orto, Eliana Davidson, Robert A. Spencer, Daniel P. Collins, Mary Incontro, William Howard Taft, IV, JoAnn J. Dolan, John B. Bellinger, III, Bruce Swartz, Waldo W. Brooks , Patrick Philbin
Jan. 31, 2002 | WH | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4725
Routing and tranmittal cover sheets from December 2001 though February 2002 re: Detainee Detention Flow Charts. No attachements
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger, III, Daniel Dell'Orto, Eliana Davidson, Bruce Swartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Evan T. Bloom, William Howard Taft, IV