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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DOS | ACLU-RDI 3557
State Department Talking Points memo on the use of Guantanamo Bay as a detention facility for Al Qaida and Taliban detainees. The memo provides some background information on the decision to use Guantanamo, including the legislative context and ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Arlen Specter
Jan. 02, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3558
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: January 20 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
Jan. 30, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3559
State Department Cable to the overseas US Missions with information and talking points to address questions raised by allies in relation to and over the legal status, treatment and detention of detainees at Guantanamo. Specifically, the cable ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Feb. 02, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3560
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: Transfer of Detainees in Afghanistan to Guantanamo Bay". There is no other discernible information or context. There is a handwritten notation on the top of the page that states "Important: Hold ...
Feb. 03, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3561
State Department cover sheet for a document from the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs entitled "PM Cover Sheet" with Log Number: #106 and designating the Secretary of State as the recipient. The subject title is "Detainee Issues". There is ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell, Gregory M. Suchan, Lincoln P. Bloomfield, John Finney, Chris Duvall, Carolyn F. Wilson, Timothy J. Dunn
Feb. 02, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3562
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: Detainee Issues". There is no other discernible information or context.
Feb. 19, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3563
These emails concern the coordination of the State Department’s resources in transferring operations of the Joint Interagency Interrogation functions to a new command that will be headed by MG Dunleavy. The new Joint Task Force (JTF-170) will ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Gregory M. Suchan
Linda Watt
Gregory M. Suchan, Linda Watt, Martin Chesches, John Finney, Brent E. Blaschke , Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Peter G. Schmeelk , Randolph Marshall Bell, Debra L. Cagan, James J. Carragher, Gregory B. Sprow, James A. Larocco, Gordon Gray, Michael E. Dunlavey
Feb. 26, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3564
State Department Bureau of Political-Military Affairs cover sheet. No attachment.
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Gregory M. Suchan, John Finney, Chris Duvall, Carolyn F. Wilson, Timothy J. Dunn, Colin L. Powell
Feb. 02, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3565
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: February 2 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context
Feb. 28, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3566
State Department memo on how to address questions from the media on how the Guantanamo detainees are being treated. The memo poses potential questions and answers and states that the answers should be that the detainees are being: treated ...