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. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4088
Email thanking JoAnn J. Dolan for help getting clearance on a press guidance for an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Meeting. The Press Guidance is attached. It discusses the U.S. government's and ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Christopher T. Robinson
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris, Odell C. Dehart, Colin L. Powell, Christopher R. Hill, Francis M. Gaffney, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Bridget A. Brink, Christopher Sibilla, Robert Ruhl Simmons, Eliana Davidson
Sept. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4160
Emails mention a discussion that took place in New York concerning the status of a detainee. [Redactions in document make it difficult to read].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
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
Monica J. Tillery, JoAnn J. Dolan, Sharon E. Ahmad, 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, Henry Bisharat
Sept. 19, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4487
This cable address questions and concerns over the visiting, the status and treatment of Guantanamo detainees. The memo states that the detainees are illegal combatants, and not Prisoners of War (POWs). It states Al Qaeda is a foreign terrorist ...
Aug. 09, 2005
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Sept. 20, 2002 | EOP | ACLU-RDI 3542

A letter from President Bush describing progress against Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and work with other countries.

June 01, 2005
Letter
George W. Bush
John Dennis Hastert | Robert C. Byrd
John Dennis Hastert, Robert C. Byrd
Sept. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3491
Email from FBI to FBI re: Update on Guantanamo Visit. The email is describing routine matters with no specific detainee information.
Sept. 22, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 6748
This September 2002 email chain discusses medical coverage and setting up for interrogations, which includes having James Mitchell and Bruce Jessen ready to do an initial psycholohical assessment so that they can get waterboard approval and ...
Dec. 20, 2016
Email
James Mitchell , Bruce Jessen
Abu Zubaydah
EIT, Use of water, Waterboarding
Sept. 23, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1935
Memo states that joint FBI DOD interviews of detainees is behind schedule, but that the individual agencies can commence with interviewing.
Sept. 24, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2923
Email regarding Category IV hurricane "Lili" approaching Guantanamo. "Camp America will be totally vacated by 1400 hours tomorrow (09/25/2002 - Wednesday) and all detainees will be secured away from Delta for at least 48 hours. At 1400 hours ...
Sept. 24, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3400
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated that since being turned over to American custody he has not been mistreated. However, he did complain that in Bagram, Afghanistan his handcuffs were too tight around his ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
General, Physical assault
Sept. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3895
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Deputies Committee Meeting on High-Interest: Detainee 9/26 12:30-1:00 pm