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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Oct. 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3411
Detainee began the interview by saying he was under stress because he had not heard from his family and did not know how they were doing. He went on to confirm the details of how and where he was capti\ured in Afghanistan. Detainee denied any ...
Oct. 22, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3730
United Nations Special Rapporteur report on allegations of potential detainee abuse at Kandahar, Afghanistan. This is an annex of a report which purports to describe how suspected Taliban detainees were bound and hooded while in U.S. custody in ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Physical assault, Stress positions, Cramped confinement
Oct. 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3901
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of conclusions for Deputies Committee meeting on detainees - 10/16
Oct. 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4152
Email refers to an information memo for SEC regarding upcoming release of some detainees from Guantanamo. [Document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
David L. Scott | Geeta Pasi | Kara L. Bue | Atul Keshap | Michael H. Corbin | Susan Peters
Ronald W. Miller, Kara L. Bue, Geeta Pasi, David L. Scott, Michael H. Corbin, Atul Keshap, Sharon E. Ahmad
Oct. 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4159
Emails refer to a draft cable. [The more recent email is redacted; document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin | Edward R. Cummings
JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, Ronald W. Miller, Eliana Davidson, Ross Hyams, David L. Scott, Geeta Pasi, Bridget A. Brink, Sharon E. Ahmad, Monica J. Tillery
Oct. 23, 2002 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4707
White House Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmittal Slip. No additional in formation or comments.
Oct. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3900
DOS Office of the Legal Advisor interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Deputies Committee Meeting on Detainees 10/16/02
Oct. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4101
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Geeta Pasi forwarding an email with attachment from Lieutenant Colonel Ronald Miller on a detainee transfer/release document Ms. Dolan is seeking Ms. Pasi's approval for. Attachment not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Geeta Pasi
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Geeta Pasi
Oct. 25, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2336
The index lists this document as: Gen. Hill Forward to CJCS dtd 25 October 2002.
Oct. 25, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3412
A Detainee requested to be interviewed because he stated he was "Very Stressed" and he was being tormented by another detainee. He gave an expansive interview detailing that several of his fellow detainee had openly expressed a desire to harm the ...