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. 12, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4383
State Department cable concerning Ambassador Prosper's March 10-11 Visit to Copenhagen for dialogue with Danish government. Includes summary of discussions of Guantanamo detainees, dialogue with NGOs, including questions of torture. Document has ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Mar. 11, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 626
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Hepatitus B Management at the Detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay.
Mar. 11, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 627
Army Action Plan: Standard Operating Procedures for Hepatitis C Management at the detainee Hospital at Guantanamo Bay
Mar. 11, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4120
Emails between State Department officials concerning a meeting between William Howard Taft, IV and Lorne Craner. The email is mostly redacted.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Todd F. Buchwald
Joshua L. Dorosin
William Howard Taft, IV, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Samuel M. Witten, Andre M. Surena, Linda Jacobson, Marianne J. Hata , Katherine M. Gorove, Nina E Schou, JoAnn J. Dolan
Mar. 10, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3275
Memo states that on 01/30/2003, a redacted SSA provided training to 75 U. S. Army Reservists in the area of 'Profiling' as part of the Army Intelligence Center's 'Intelligence Support to Counter Terrorism' Course. The training was part of a ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle
Mar. 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3827
Email refers to a Human Rights Watch report on abuse by U.S. forces at detention facilities in Afghanistan. The report alleges that U.S. forces operating in Afghanistan have arbitrarily detained civilians, used excessive force and mistreated ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
JoAnn J. Dolan | Ed Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald
Robert K. Harris, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Monica J. Tillery, George W. Bush
Mar. 07, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 925
Minutes of March 3, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Adolph McQueen
Mar. 07, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3432
Interview with detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was not comfortable with a female translator and kept his head bowed during the interview. Detainee stated he was in good health and did not complain of mis-treatment. He ...
Mar. 07, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3480
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay by the FBI and the Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF). The detainee states when he was captured in Afghanistan he was beaten, hit in the head with a rifle and threatened with being shot ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General, Threat, Assault/death
Mar. 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4356
State Department cable concerning the family of a detainee and his impending transfer from Guantanamo to his home country. The rights activists request that US not transfer any war prisoners because "torture, inhumane treatment and the death ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Lorne Craner