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. 07, 2003 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 6517
This document is a heavily redacted letter from Scott Muller to the Deputy Director of Central Intelligence proposing a draft response to a Human Rights Watch letter.
June 10, 2016
Non-legal Memo
Scott W. Muller
John McLaughlin
Scott W. Muller, John McLaughlin
Mar. 06, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 2404
Letter from Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch to Sec. of Defense Donald Rumsfeld asking that U.S. government release all detainees from Guantanamo Bay. Mr. Roth states detaining persons at Guantanamo Bay violates ...
June 15, 2006
Letter
Kenneth Roth
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Mar. 06, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3431
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo. Detainee was shown a photo book wherein he identified Usama bin Laden, but says he never met him. Then he claimed that on a previous occasion two femal interviewers hooded him and had him beaten under questioning.
May 18, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
Mar. 05, 2003 | USAF | FBI | ACLU-RDI 1887
Memo summarizes the interview of a Camp Delta detainee. The interview was conducted by a Special Agent with the FBI and a Special Agent with the Air Force (AFOSI), also, an Urdu linguist was present to translate. Detainee stated that on ...
Mar. 04, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4058
Email refers to an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights brief. [Brief is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Nina E. Schou
JoAnn J. Dolan, Nina E Schou, Harry R. Melone
Mar. 04, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4059
Email refers to an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reply brief. [Brief is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Nina E. Schou
JoAnn J. Dolan, Nina E Schou, Harry R. Melone
Mar. 01, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 379
Military Review Magazine Article: Military Commissions, Past and Future. This article discusses the history of military detention and treatment from the Revolutionary War to the present with a focus on Federal Court decisions and Military justice ...
Mar. 01, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1999
Army Newspaper: Military Review Atricle re: Military Commissions, Past and Future written by Lieutenant Colon.el Jody Prescott, U.S. Army, and Major Joanne Eldridge, U.S. Army Reserve.
Mar. 01, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3701
Opinion Editorial on Guantanamo Detainees from Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues. The Op-Ed states that terrorists need not be granted POW status under Article 4 of the Geneva Convention but should be ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Mar. 01, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3982
Guantanamo Detainees Op-Ed by Pierre-Richard Prosper Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, March 2003. In this Op-ed Amb. Prosper describes how it is that America came to the issue of taking Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters and the difficulty ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper