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. 21, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4328
State Department cable concerning a Report from the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Entitled "Situation of Muslim and Arab Peoples in Various Parts of the World in the ...
Mar. 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3941
This State Department cable provides talking points for US mission & Embassy officials to inform foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. It ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Richard A. Boucher, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan
Mar. 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4385
State Department cable announcing authorization to enter in to talks with other governments to take or receive their own citizens that are Guantanamo detainees for detention and potential prosecution in their home country. The cable is otherwise ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Richard Lee Armitage
Mar. 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4989
State Department Cable Subject: Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo, March 21, 2003. No further information or content
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
Mar. 23, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2450
This DOD memo gives information on Geneva Convention provisions and Secretary of Defense press guidance regarding photography and filming of Enemy Prisoners of War.
Mar. 24, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2446
This DOD memo is a list of talking points to address questions concerning the role of international law and the Geneva Convention relating to POWs.
Mar. 24, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2447
This memo discusses the Geneva Convention, the protections it affords, proper treatment of the dead and responsibility for violations of the Convention protections.
Mar. 24, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4079
Emails discuss and refer to press guidances for Richard Boucher.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
James Burger
JoAnn J. Dolan
Charles L. Daris, James Burger , JoAnn J. Dolan, Himamauli Das, Richard A. Boucher, Steven A. Solomon, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, Waldo W. Brooks
Mar. 24, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4190
This press guidance sets forth the rights of POWs under the Geneva convention.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Charles L. Daris
Mar. 24, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4647
This State Department letter is from Paul V. Kelly, Assistant Secretary Legal Affairs, DOS to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)concerning an article in the Washington Post dated December 26, 2002 concerning U.S. interrogation methods. Mr. Kelly is ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Paul V. Kelly
Jeff Bingaman
Paul V. Kelly, Jesse Francis Bingaman, Jr., Paula J. Dobriansky