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 23, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6686
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the fifth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 22, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6683
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the fourth day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
EIT, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling
June 21, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3590
This State Department cable provides talking points concerning informing foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. The cable instructs the ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper
June 21, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3591
This State Department cable provides talking points for US mission & Embassy officials discuss with foreign governments the detention of their citizens/nationals at Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. The ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper
June 21, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6744
This June 21, 2002 email is an invitation to a meeting to discuss the future of the Abu Zubaydah interrogations. Attendees include people from the CTC and the Abu Zubaydah Interrogation Team (including James Mitchell), among others.
Dec. 20, 2016
Email
James Mitchell
Abu Zubaydah
June 20, 2002 | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4711
NSC Fax Cover Sheet re: Agenda for Thursday, June 20, 2002. No additional comments. No attachments.
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger
Eliana Davidson | Daniel Dell'Orto | Matt Vaccaro
John B. Bellinger, III, Daniel Dell'Orto, Eliana Davidson, Robert A. Spencer, Daniel P. Collins, Mary Incontro, Bruce Swartz, William Howard Taft, IV, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Elliott Abrams
June 19, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4238
State Department cable concerning a meeting with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) regarding the global war on terror, status of detainees and military commission.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Edward R. Cummings, David A. Kaye, David W. Bowker, James Burger , Steven A. Solomon
June 19, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4242
This State Department cable provides talking points concerning informing foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan, and policy guidance for ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
June 19, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6682
This cable describes a redacted detainee's behavior in the second day of a three week isolation phase.
Dec. 20, 2016
Cable
Isolation
June 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2828
This memo is describing the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit's (BAU) On-Site Assessment of Interview Process at Guantanamo in 2002. It notes that other U.S. government entities have conducted behavioral assessments at Guantanamo. Enclosed is a BAU ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Pasquale D'Amuro | John S. Pistole | Kenneth H. Senser | Thomas F. Lewis II | Andrew Arena | David W. Szady | Hector M. Pesquera | Cassandra M. Chandler
John S. Pistole, Pasquale D'Amuro, Kenneth H. Senser, Thomas F. Lewis II, Andrew Arena, David W. Szady, Hector M. Pesquera, Cassandra M. Chandler, Michael E. Dunlavey