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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Mar. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4327
DOS Cable re: State Department Press Statement. Document Contains Press Statements on the Regional Securities Ministerial Meeting held in Bogota, Columbia; A bi-lateral statement by the U.S. and Mexico on climate change; and the Canadian prime ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
Richard A. Boucher
Mar. 19, 2003 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 4648
Congressional Correspondence Clearance: Senator Bingaman requesting a copy of a Washington Post article dated December 26, 2002 concerning methods used by the U.S. to obtain information from persons it has detained.
Dec. 02, 2004
Other
Jeff Bingaman
Jesse Francis Bingaman, Jr.
Mar. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4700
State Department cable stating that the U.S. has come to an agreement to return five (5) Guantanamo detainees back to their home country. The agreement includes assurances from the receiving country that the detainees will receive humane ...
June 08, 2005
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Ronald W. Miller, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Mar. 20, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3436
Interview of detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was shown photos of another captured detainee and asked to identify him. The detainee stated he did not see or know this person until they were both in the same prison prior to ...
Mar. 20, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3478
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee advised the interviewing agent that he was well. The purpose of this interview was to build rapport with this detainee. As a result, no investigative information was obtained. ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Other Humiliation, Religious
Mar. 20, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3801
Fax Cover Sheet from Amnesty International to Secretary of State Powell re: Human Rights and the War in Iraq. No attachments included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Mar. 20, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3940
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: Release of Detainees from U.S. Control". There is no other discernible information or context.
Mar. 20, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4189
Press release/declaration by International Committee of the Red Cross' President, Jakob Kellenberger regarding the ICRC's position on the Iraq crisis. Mr. Kellenberger reminds the U.S., Iraq and the U.K. of their obligations under the Geneva ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Charles L. Daris
Mar. 21, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 622
Army Action Plan: Medical Intervention for Helminthic Infections. Standard Operating Procedure.
Mar. 21, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4080
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris