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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Sept. 06, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4879
This FBI memo is a condensation of interview notes of a Saudi national captured on the battlefield in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo. The Saudi was in Afghanistan during the time of the Taliban and when they fell he was captured. After being ...
Sept. 08, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2393
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
Sept. 08, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2924
Refers to attached briefing re: Guantanamo (not linked). Contents Completely Redacted.
Sept. 09, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 2401
This emial is to discuss Dept. of State talking points concerning detainees and Guantanamo. Heavily redacted.
June 15, 2006
Email
Odell C. DeHart
JoAnn J. Dolan
Sept. 09, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 3490
Emails between Military Personnel re: Ft. Bragg Interrogation Training
Sept. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4089
This State Department cable is directed to the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland for a Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) meeting on September 9-20, 2002. The talking points are as follows: The U.S. remains committed to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Sept. 12, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4149
Emails between Ronald W. Miller and Joshua L. Dorosin re: Comments on DOD Paper. The email contains an attachment, not included. The comments on the initial email from Joshua Dorosin states "Ron/JoAnn - I'll be pulling comments together today ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, Ronald W. Miller, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings
Sept. 13, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1936
Contents completly redacted.
Sept. 13, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3399
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated that he was treated like a criminal. He stated that in prior interviews before Pakistani/U.S. authorities, he was coerced into lying and fabricated information. However, ...
Sept. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4013
Message entirely redacted except for a footnote that states "Note: The detainee's father — who has publicized his son's situation by occupying in a cage in downtown Stockholm throughout the past week — staged a protest in front of the Embassy on ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Pierre-Richard Prosper | Ronald W. Miller | William Howard Taft, IV | Brian H. Leventhal | Ed Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Andre M. Surena | Todd F. Buchwald
JoAnn J. Dolan, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, William Howard Taft, IV, Brian H. Leventhal, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Andre M. Surena, Katherine M. Gorove, Todd F. Buchwald