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. 02, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 6820
This attached fax cover sheet and letter is a response from Director Gerald Feierstein to Mr. and Mrs. Sturtevant's January 31, 2002 letter concerning the Bush Administration's policy with respect to the detention of enemy combatants captured in ...
May 15, 2012
Letter, Other
Gerald Feierstein [nid:12179]
Mr. and Mrs. Sturtevant
Gerald Feierstein, Anne Crowther
Aug. 16, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6821
This document contains a citizen's letter to President Bush voicing disapproval that Afghan prisoners are not treated like prisoners of war and includes an attached article from the San Francisco Chronicle. The document also contains an August ...
May 15, 2012
Letter
George W. Bush
Anne Crowther
Sept. 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 6824
This series of letters contains the original inquiry from Macbeth Bertrand Henry, President of the Commission on Children's Rights about juvenile detainees in Guantanamo Bay prison. The response letter from Pierre-Richard Prosper asserts that ...
May 15, 2012
Letter
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Macbeth Bertrand-Henry
Sept. 07, 2007 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5908
This DOS Cable from U.S. Geneva Mission to DOS Washington contains a letter from Special Rapporteurs regarding the health and detention conditions of Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility detainees, and specifically, Samil al-Haj, a national of Sudan ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Legal Memo, Cable, Letter
Samil Al-Haj
Feb. 07, 2007 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5915
This DOS letter concerns the DOS's Accountability Review Board Review inquiry in to the Deaths of seven (7) Personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Oct. 28, 2011
Letter, Other
Harry K. Thompson
July 10, 2007 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5907
This DOS Cable from the US Mission Geneva to DOS Washington contains a letter from Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions, Philip Alston, regarding the June 10, 2006 death of Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ali ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Legal Memo, Cable, Letter
Ali Abdullah Ahmed, Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5910
This Cable from DOS Washington to the US Mission in Geneva, Switzerland contains a letter from US Sec. of State Colin Powell to the human rights group Amnesty International regarding detainees held by the US government at Guantanamo Bay Detention ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
Colin L. Powell
May 13, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5911
This DOS Cable from the DOS Washington to the US Mission Geneva, Switzerland contains a communication to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). This is the US's reply to ICRC's notes verbale of Jan 6, 2004 and Mar 25, 2004 and its ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
Kevin Edward Moley
June 19, 2006 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 5905
This is a DOS Cable from the US Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with letters exchanged between the family of a Saudi detainee and US Ambassador to Saudi Arabia James C. Oberwetter. The letter from Abdulaziz Suleiman al-Rubaish, brother of a ...
Oct. 28, 2011
Cable, Letter
James C. Oberwetter
Yasser Al Zahrani, Mana Shaman Allabardi Al Tabi, Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi
July 06, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 5891
This letter from Sen. Patrick Leahy to Secretary of State Colin Powell requests information concerning the arrest, detention & interrogation of persons captured in the War on Terror since September 11, 2001.
Oct. 28, 2011
Letter
Senator, Patrick Leahy
Secretary of State, Colin Powell
Patrick Leahy, Colin L. Powell