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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Aug. 25, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3728
This State Department cable states that a letter was received from Stephen Toope, Chairman of the United Nations' Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances. The letter concerns a report by the Working Group Enforced or Involuntary ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Kevin Edward Moley
Oct. 22, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3731
Letter from Theo van Boven, Special Rapporteur of the Commission on Human Rights on torture to U.S. Amb. Moley re: Special Rapporteur Commission resolutions 2001/62, entitled: "Torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
Dec. 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3732
This State Department cable relates a letter received from Theo van Boven, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, concerning the status of detention procedures and the military justice to be applied to certain detainees. Mr. Boven also ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Kevin Edward Moley
Dec. 08, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3733
This letter is from Theo van Boven, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, concerning the status of detention procedures and the military justice to be applied to certain detainees. Mr. Boven also expresses concern over the release of ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3844
Email response redacted. Original email includes a press release from the ICRC on the topic of Iraq and what the Geneva Convention says about the future of persons deprived of their freedom.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Steven A. Solomon
Ed Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan | Piper A. Campbell | Jeffrey DeLaurentis | Joel Danies | Kevin Edward Moley | Magda S. Siekert | Joseph P. Cassidy | Thomas H. Casey | Katherine L. Starr | Michael T. Peay | Lynn L. Cassel
Steven A. Solomon, Edward R. Cummings, Frank E. Schmelzer , Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Magda S. Siekert, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Joel D. Danies, Joseph P. Cassidy, Thomas H. Casey, Katherine L. Starr, Michael T. Peay, Lynn L. Cassel, Kevin Edward Moley, Melissa R. Davis, David Shark, Joseph S. McGinnis, Richard L. Greene, John D. Hamill
Aug. 31, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3846
Email discusses a recent speech by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour to the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), Mr. Solomon states that the Ambassador would like to respond to the speech. The Ambassador is particularly ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Steven A. Solomon
Katherine M. Gorove | JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Ed Cummings | Kevin Edward Moley | Lynn L. Cassel | Michael T. Peay | Jeffrey DeLaurentis | Joel Danies | Robert K. Harris | Bonnie A. Angelov
Steven A. Solomon, Robert K. Harris, Katherine M. Gorove, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, Kevin Edward Moley, Lynn L. Cassel, Michael T. Peay, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Joel D. Danies, Frank E. Schmelzer , Bonnie A. Angelov
May 07, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3967
Email from Steve Solomon to JoAnn Dolan forwarding an email from Joseph Casey to Lynn Cassel with the subject "Wall Street Journal to Publish International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) February Report." The comments from Steve Solomon to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Steve A. Solomon
JoAnn J. Dolan
Steven A. Solomon, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Joseph P. Cassidy, Lynn L. Cassel, Kevin Edward Moley, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, Magda S. Siekert, Michael T. Peay
July 02, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 4023
Letter from UN Commission on Human Rights to U.S. Ambassador Kevin Edward Moley re: Request for Information on Detainee Treatment and Legal Status. The letter refers to Commission resolutions on torture and requests investigation into allegations ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven | Leandro Despouy | Paul Hunt
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
May 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4121
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin and Todd F. Buchwald re: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Sees No Humanitarian Crisis. This email forwards a cable describing International Committee for the Red ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald
JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Colin L. Powell, Kevin Edward Moley
Dec. 19, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4197
Emails discuss the death of two detainees at the Bagram Detention Facility in Iraq. The first detainee died of a pulmonary embolism on December 3, 2002, the second died on December 10, 2002 of a heart attack.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Steven A. Solomon
Kevin Edward Moley | James B. Foley | Michael T. Peay | Jeffrey DeLaurentis | Piper A. Campbell | Joel Danies | Richard Aker
Dan Hetlage, Steven A. Solomon, Kevin Edward Moley, James B. Foley, Michael T. Peay, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, Joel D. Danies, Richard Aker, William Howard Taft, IV, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Andre M. Surena, Gilda M. Brancato, Edward R. Cummings, Steven Boltz, Henry A. Waxman, Ronald W. Miller, Eliana Davidson, Ted Wadsworth, Mustafa Popal, Stephanie A. Barna, Jeffrey Casler, Barbara Burfeind, Charles A. Allen, Charles L. Daris