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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Feb. 07, 2002 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4654
This is a press release by the White House concerning the application of the Geneva Conventions to foreign fighters captured in the War on Terror and held in Guantanamo. This is a verbatim account of a press conference as part of the White House ...
Dec. 23, 2002
Other
George W. Bush, Ari Fleischer
Jan. 31, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 4655
Emanl from Ed Cummings concerning the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) going to Guantanamo to meet with the detainees. the comments are: FYI: I called last night (Wed.) with three questions I He indicated that at the meeting last ...
Jan. 02, 2005
Email
Edward R. Cummings
Steven A. Solomon | Linda Thomas-Greenfield | Nicholas M. Miscione | David A. Kaye | David W. Bowker | Betsy A. Lippman | Alan J. Kreczko
Edward R. Cummings, Steven A. Solomon, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Nicholas M. Miscione, Alan Kreczko, David A. Kaye, David W. Bowker, James H. Thessin, William Howard Taft, IV
June 03, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4656
Email from JoAnn Dolan forwarding an email from the London mission from containing a letter from an attorney representing a detainee held at Guantanamo. The email from Ms. Dolan to Ms. Davidson is redacted, but the letter attached below.
Jan. 02, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Eliana Davidson
JoAnn J. Dolan, Eliana Davidson
May 21, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4652
This document is a cover page for an underlying document. It indicates whether the underlying document requires a signature from Paul Kelly. No indication as to what the underlying document is.
Dec. 02, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Paul V. Kelly
Peggy Cifrino
Paul V. Kelly
DOS | ACLU-RDI 4653
This document is cropped and unreadable
Feb. 25, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4649
DOS Congressional Correspondence Tasker re: Request for Image of Document
Dec. 02, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Paul V. Kelly
Paul V. Kelly
Feb. 11, 2003 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 4650
This Letter from Senator Jeff Bingaman, (D-NM) is an inquiry to State Department Under Secretary for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky concerning a Washington Post article published on December 26, 2002 which described U.S. interrogation methods ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Jeff Bingaman
Paula Dobriansky
Jesse Francis Bingaman, Jr., Paula J. Dobriansky
May 28, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 4651
This document is a request by Rep. Ike Skelton to the State Department Subject: Requesting when the Department was advised of the February 2004 report of the International Committee of the Red Cross on the mistreatment of the detainees in Iraq
Dec. 02, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Ike Skelton
Isaac Newton Skelton IV
Aug. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4646
This State Department document is a point-by-point response to an opinion (not enclosed) by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, the United Nations former Commission on Human Rights, to the U.S. detention of Al Qaeda operatives and others ...
Mar. 24, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4647
This State Department letter is from Paul V. Kelly, Assistant Secretary Legal Affairs, DOS to Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)concerning an article in the Washington Post dated December 26, 2002 concerning U.S. interrogation methods. Mr. Kelly is ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Paul V. Kelly
Jeff Bingaman
Paul V. Kelly, Jesse Francis Bingaman, Jr., Paula J. Dobriansky