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. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4246
State Department cable reporting on a meeting between an Ambassador and the representative of the wives and family members of detainees’ held at Guantanamo. A letter was passed to the Ambassador and a request to visit the detainees to check on ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller
Sept. 26, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4150
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, Katherine Gorove and Ronald W. Miller re: Public Diplomacy Docs. The comments from Ms. Dolan are "It is probably too late to get it in circulation before the SVTS. Let's get a final ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin | Edward R. Cummings | Katherine M. Gorove | Ronald W. Miller
Monica J. Tillery, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Katherine M. Gorove, Ronald W. Miller
Sept. 27, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3492
Email from FBI Official to FBI Official re: Camp Delta Update. The email states "We were back at Delta this morning (Friday) at the request of a St. Louis agent who has recently gotten some excellent results. It was the only ongoing interview as ...
Sept. 27, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4434
Letter Carl Henrik Ehrencrona regarding status of Swedish detainee named Mehdi Mohammed Ghezali. The letter is from a member of the Swedish Parliament in response to Mr. Ehrencrona's efforts to obtain information and or the release of Mr. Ghazali.
Jan. 12, 2005
Letter
Carl Henrik Ehrencrona
Peter Althin
Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali
Sept. 29, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4353
State Department cable concerning a summary of the Yemeni Parliamentary Committee's investigation and detention of "hundreds" of suspects involved in the bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen in October 2000. The Committee's report focused on ...
Sept. 30, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2943
An FBI email concerning an update. It mentions informing the recipient of the results of a meeting "tomorrow." Contents redacted.
Sept. 30, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3367
An FBI email concerning an update. It mentions informing the recipient of the results of a meeting "tomorrow." Contents redacted.
Sept. 30, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3493
Email from FBI official touring through Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The email states "DHS wanted us to be a part of one of the interrogation teams. [They] said as long as there was no 'torture' involved that we were within our guidelines. He ...
Sept. 30, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4151
Emails between JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Ronald W. Miller and Others re: PD on Detainees-Strategy Paper. The email has an attachment, not included. the comments from Ms. Dolan are "I assume no one has anything further on this one. Ron: ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin | Ronald W. Miller | Edward R. Cummings | Andre M. Surena | Katherine M. Gorove
JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Ronald W. Miller, Edward R. Cummings, Andre M. Surena, Katherine M. Gorove, Sharon E. Ahmad, Aranaga Carlos
Oct. 01, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 397
Army Training and Evaluation Program No. 5-520-10-MTP: Mission Training Plan for the Engineer Team, Quarry, (75TPH) (LC).