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. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3814
Fax Cover Sheet from Michael Fooks to Joann Dolan re: Wives II
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Michael Fooks
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Michael D. Fooks
Oct. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4439
This email forwards a letter received from the wives of unknown men. There is no context to the email.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Michael D. Fooks
Ronald W. Miller | JoAnn J. Dolan
Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Michael D. Fooks
Oct. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4440
Letter from Clifford G. Bond Concerning Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Detainees Held at Guantanamo.
Jan. 12, 2005
Letter
Clifford G. Bond
Oct. 26, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3173
Email sender is an FBI official in Guantanamo. He notes that Pentagon was scheduled to repatriate four (4) detainees, three (3), (Afghans) and one (1) (Tajik) to their home countries in late October [2002], and that the same plane will return ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Email
Michael E. Dunlavey
Oct. 26, 2002 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4713
White House Fax Cover Sheet re: SOC for 18 October PC Meeting on Detainees. No addtional information. No attachments.
June 08, 2005
Letter
Maura Harty | James A. Whitmore | James A. McAtamney | Edward Snead
Maura A. Harty, James A. Whitmore, James A. McAtamney, Edward W. Snead, Paul W. Butler
Oct. 28, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1938
Contents redacted.
Oct. 28, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3904
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Deputies Committee Meeting on Detainees 10/18/02
Oct. 28, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4250
State Department cable concerning the 2002 International Bar association meeting where the topic of discussion "range from International terrorism, Intellectual property, human rights and civil liberties". It is also mentioned that South African ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Oct. 28, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4675
State Department email with attached press guidance concerning the possible release of some Guantanamo detainees.
May 04, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin | Edward R. Cummings | William Howard Taft, IV | Todd F. Buchwald | Andre M. Surena
JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, William Howard Taft, IV, Todd F. Buchwald, Andre M. Surena, Ronald W. Miller
Oct. 29, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 914
General Dunlavey's meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross: Minutes of October 29, 2003 Meeting. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Michael E. Dunlavey , John J. Perrone