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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Mar. 27, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4191
Memo, among other things, describes the U.S. government's application of the Geneva Convention with respect to the War on Terrorism and differentiates the U.S. government's treatment of detainees from the Iraq's treatment of American detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
JoAnn J. Dolan | Ronald W. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, William Howard Taft, IV, James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Gregory W. Sullivan, Rhonda H. Shore, Charles L. Daris
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
Sept. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4246
State Department cable reporting on a meeting between an Ambassador and the representative of the wives and family members of detainees’ held at Guantanamo. A letter was passed to the Ambassador and a request to visit the detainees to check on ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller
Oct. 10, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4247
State Department cable announcing the release of four (4) detainees from Guantanamo to their home governments. The cable also states that the U.S. is willing to release detainees to home countries that are willing to treat the former detainees ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Feb. 18, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4368
Email forwarded from Jonathan Crock to Ronald Miller containing talking points on torture (mostly dealing with Guantanamo) used for last year's Human Rights Report rollout. Mr. Crock's comments are "Do we have any new guidance on no torture at GTMO?"
Dec. 23, 2004
Email
Jonathan M. Crock
Ronald W. Miller
Jonathan M. Crock, Ronald W. Miller, Sarah F. Ozkan, JoAnn J. Dolan, Christopher N. Camponovo
DOS | ACLU-RDI 4370
State Department talking points on the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo. The main points being made are: 1) All accusations of mistreatment are taken seriously and fully investigated; 2) Torture and other forms of cruel treatment committed by ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Ronald W. Miller
George W. Bush, Ronald W. Miller, Rexon Y. Ryu, JoAnn J. Dolan
Aug. 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4380
State Department fax cover sheet from Holly Palubiak, Political Officer, U.S. Embassy, London to Ronald Miller. No comments or attachemnts.
Dec. 23, 2004
Letter
Holly Palubiak
Ronald W. Miller
Ronald W. Miller, Holly Palubiak
May 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4395
State Department cable describing a meeting Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper had with an Ambassador of another country on May 7, 2003. The Ambassador for the foreign government requested that his citizens be released from Guantanamo, and Amb. ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan
Dec. 03, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4411
State Department cable from Washington to a U.S. Embassy acknowledging receipt of a diplomatic note concerning certain Guantanamo Detainees. The cable states "The national[s] at Guantanamo is being held as ' an enemy combatant[s] and are being ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Ronald W. Miller
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