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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Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3933
This State Department cable provides talking points for US mission & Embassy officials to inform foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. It ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Brent E. Blaschke , Pierre-Richard Prosper
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3934
This State Department cable provides talking points for US mission & Embassy officials to inform foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. It ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4201
Cable is a forwarding of a request from the Chairman-Rapporteur of the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to visit and examine the detainees in the custody of the U.S.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Mirta Alvarez, Kevin Edward Moley, Colin L. Powell
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4202
This State Department cable provides Washington with a round-up of a press briefing held in China where Chinese government officials were questioned about world affairs. Al-Qaeda's role with Chinese separatists; Pakistan; and the Middle East ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4251
State Department cable concerning Ambassador Dan Coats meeting with German Foreign Affairs State Secretary Gunter Pleuger. Mr. Pleuger requested the meeting to discuss the Guantanamo detainees. Mr. Pleuger and later Foreign Minister Fischer ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Daniel Ray Coats
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4252
State Department cable concerning UNCHR Robinson's comments that the Guantanamo detainees should be brought before a court or tribunal for adjudication. She said that there has been a curtailment of human rights since the September 11, 2001 ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4345
State Department cable concerning Australian Prime Minister Howard's upcoming trip to New York for the World Economic Forum. The cable states that PM Howard has expressed his support for Operation Enduring Freedom and the international effort ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
John Thomas Schieffer
Colin L. Powell
John Thomas Schieffer, Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4421
Email forwarded from Evan Bloom to David Bowker with an attachment concerning foreign access to the Guantanamo detainees.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Evan T. Bloom
David W. Bowker
Evan T. Bloom, David W. Bowker, David A. Kaye, William Howard Taft, IV, Gregory M. Suchan, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Jan. 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3786
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Detainees in Cuba.
Jan. 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3873
DOS Memo re: Questions Taken at January 23, 2002 Daily Press Briefing. International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) - Question: Will the International Committee of the Red Cross submit a formal report of the results of its visit to Guantanamo ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Mike McKinley, David A. Kaye