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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June 03, 2004 | FBI | CRIM | ACLU-RDI 3213
FBI memo from Criminal Investigative to all Field Offices concerning cases Case ID #: 66F-HQ-1339150 and 66F-HQ-C1384970. Entire contents redacted.
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Laura M. Laughlin | Chris Swecker | Joseph R. Lewis
Laura M. Laughlin, Joseph R. Lewis, Chris Swecker
June 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4156
Emails discuss and refer to Questions and Answers: Armitage hearings.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin
JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Steven A. Solomon, Sharon E. Ahmad
June 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4312
Email from Tamara K. Fitgerald to Winston E. Mann, Katherine M. Gorove and Sandra L. Hodgkinson re: Final Ramcharan Report on Iraq
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Tamara K. Fitzgerald
Winston E. Mann | Katherine M. Gorove | Sandra L. Hodgkinson | Richard Pregent
Katherine M. Gorove
June 03, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4667
This letter is a response from the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bill Graham to Dennis Edney of Edley, Hattersley & Dolphin concerning a Guantanamo detainee Omar Ahmed Khadr, who is a Canadian citizen. Mr. Graham acknowledges Mr. Edney's ...
June 08, 2005
Letter
Bill Graham
Dennis Edney
Omar Ahmed Khadr
June 03, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4668
This letter is a response from the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bill Graham to Nathan J. Whitling of Parke McLaws Barristers & Solicitors, concerning a Guantanamo detainee Omar Ahmed Khadr, who is a Canadian citizen. Mr. Graham ...
June 08, 2005
Letter
Bill Graham
Nathan J. Whitling
Omar Ahmed Khadr
June 03, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4691
White House Cover Sheet re: SOC for 1 Jun PC Meeting on Detainees.
June 03, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 6120
The document is a series of documents related to the service of a Major deployed as the Officer in Charge of the DH HAT Team. The document includes a personal letter from a member of the OIC's team, certificate of release/discharge from active ...
June 03, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 6210
A letter from the House of Representatives to President George W. Bush informing him of their determination to investigate the prison abuses at Abu Gharib and elsewhere and to request his assistance in obtaining key documents. The letter includes ...
Oct. 30, 2009
Letter
Henry A. Waxman
George W. Bush
Henry A. Waxman, John Conyers, Jr.
| ACLU-RDI
June 02, 2004 | NCIS | ACLU-RDI 565
These emails are between Navy NCIS investigators tracking down a Navy Military Working Dog (MWD) handler and follows-up to ask whether CID HQ came through with any information on the MWD who gave statement to Army CID but wasn’t implicated in any ...