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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Nov. 02, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3661
These two (2) memos are background and history of the Establishment of the Nuremberg Tribunal, and Detention of POWs, Unlawful Combatants, and Other Detainees. The memos are designed to address concerns and questions about the legal authority of ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Marc Susser
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Marc Susser, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Nov. 01, 2001 | Executive | ACLU-RDI 3296
CBC News Article: Hawala Unregulated International Financing Networks
Oct. 31, 2001 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 332
Mission Training Plan for Headquarters, Forward Support Battalion For Heavy, Light, Air Assault and Airborne Divisions
Oct. 23, 2001 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 4540

This memo considers the use of military force to prevent or deter terrorist activity domestically and concludes that, “the President has both constitutional and statutory authority to use the armed forces in military operations, against ...

Mar. 02, 2009
Legal Memo
John C. Yoo | Robert J. Delahunty
Alberto Gonzalez | William J. Haynes, II
Robert J. Delahunty, William J. Haynes, II, John C. Yoo, George W. Bush, David S. Kris
Oct. 18, 2001 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3765
Incomplete printout of the Third Geneva Convention provisions.
Oct. 11, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4181
Letter from the Committee against Torture discussing a request from the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The High Commissioner asked the Committee to ensure that the human rights mandate is maintained with high visibility in light of various ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Charles L. Daris
Oct. 10, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3919
State Department Routing and Transmittal Slip from Evan T. Bloom to William Howard Taft, IV re: Papers for your review Amb. Prosper would like to send this out to other agencies for clearance this afternoon.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Evan T. Bloom
William Howard Taft, IV
Evan T. Bloom, William Howard Taft, IV, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Sept. 28, 2001 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 439
Army Training and Evaluation Program No. 63-002-30-MTP: Mission Training Plan for Headquarters Company, Division Support Command, Heavy, Airborn, Air Assault, and Light Divisions
Sept. 27, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4416
Email forwarding cable concerning a meeting with representatives of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC).
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Edward R. Cummings
Steven A. Solomon | Michael T. Peay | David W. Bowker
Edward R. Cummings, Steven A. Solomon, Michael T. Peay, David W. Bowker, William Howard Taft, IV, David A. Kaye, Marianne J. Hata
Sept. 25, 2001 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 4539

The memo discusses whether a change to the FISA law would render it unconstitutional under the Fourth Amendment. Specifically it considers and concludes that changing the law from requiring that foreign intelligence gathering be “the ...

Mar. 02, 2009
Legal Memo
John C. Yoo
David S. Kris
John C. Yoo, David S. Kris