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
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4724
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Jan. 31, 2002 | WH | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4725
Routing and tranmittal cover sheets from December 2001 though February 2002 re: Detainee Detention Flow Charts. No attachements
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger, III, Daniel Dell'Orto, Eliana Davidson, Bruce Swartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Evan T. Bloom, William Howard Taft, IV
Jan. 20, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4736
Letter from attorney Dennis Edney, attorney for Omar Ahmed Khadr, a detainee held at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo. The letter is a request for Mr. Graham to take any and all available steps to assert and protect Omar's basic human rights as a Canadian ...
June 08, 2005
Letter
Dennis Edney
Bill Graham
George W. Bush
Omar Ahmed Khadr
Aug. 10, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1245
An Army Colonel emails a Chief Warrant Officer at Camp Bucca to establish a list of detainees that are eligible for release from custody. The email states "I have been checking for several days and many of these prisoners do not even have files ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1246
Email notifies recipient(s) of detainees who are cleared for release from Abu Ghraib, Camp Cropper, Rusafa, Tasferrat, and Camp Bucca [detainee names and numbers redacted]. Also, there is an attachment referenced in the email with detainee ...
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1247
Email lists the names/numbers of detainees cleared for release from Abu Ghraib, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper, and Tasferrat [names/numbers redacted].
Aug. 05, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1248
DOD lists of detainees who are cleared for release from Abu Ghraib, Al Salhiya, Camp Bucca and Tasferrat [detainee names/numbers redacted].
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1249
Email lists the names/numbers of detainees cleared for release from Camp Bucca [detainee names/numbers redacted].
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1250
Email lists the names/ numbers of detainees cleared for release from Abu Ghareb, Al Salhiya, Camp Bucca, Camp Cropper and Tasferrat [detainee names/numbers redacted].
DOD | ACLU-RDI 1251
Email lists the names/ numbers of detainees cleared for release from Camp Bucca [detainee names/numbers redacted].