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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May 01, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3455
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The interview of was conducted in the detainee's cell, the detainee was fully shackled, sat on his bunk, and with two Military Policeman was just outside the open door. The purpose of the interviewers ...
May 01, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3782
State Department memo on a meeting Amb. Prosper had with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) President Kellenberger concerning a certain detainee and the need for "public knowledge" of discussions on his status to address concerns ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Ed Cummings
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Edward R. Cummings, William Howard Taft, IV, Beth Jones
May 02, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4394
DOS Cable re: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Delivers a Verbal Note on "Rights and Duties of the U.S. as an Occupying Power. the cable is mostly redacted.
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
May 02, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4640
Email from Carol A. Santos discussing the ICRC's concerns about Guantanamo detainees. [Contents redacted].
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Carol A. Santos
Arthur E. Dewey | Peter M. McKiinley | Margaret J. Pollack | Piper A. Campbell
Carol T. Santos, Arthur E. Dewey , Carol T. Santos, P. Michael McKinley, Margaret J. Pollack, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, Frank E. Schmelzer
May 03, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1533
Memo from General Miller re: Allegations of inhumane treatment of detainees. General Miller directs the interrogators at Guantanamo to cease the use of the "Fear-Up Harsh" interrogation; only DOD personnel may approve interrogation plans; ...
July 22, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller
General, Assault/death, Light or sound, Sexual, Forced physical training, Physical assault, Threat, Environmental manipulation, Other Humiliation
May 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1255
Medical record of 47 year-old Iraqi male detainee suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the pelvis, groin, legs and torso. The medical records do not state how the detainee received his injuries and does not give any personal information on ...
May 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1272
Medical report of Iraq detainee. Medical conditions included, gunshot wound to pelvis; laceration of bladder and neck. Medical treatments included, right nephrectomy.
May 04, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1277
Medical records of a 20 year-old Iraqi male civilian admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to his pelvis and associated injuries. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the gentleman received his injuries. The medical report ...
May 05, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1274
Blood transfusion reports. These medical records from numerous detainees during March of 2003. The records are not separated to distinguish from one patient to another.
May 05, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1275
This is a partial medical record of an unknown Iraqi male or unknown age. The records state the injury of the detainee is a Gunshot wound, but does not state how the injury was incurred.