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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Nov. 27, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4003
Email from Todd Buchwald to David Kaye re: IM to S on Detainee Rights. Detainee Rights attachment not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Todd F. Buchwald
David A. Kaye
Todd F. Buchwald, David A. Kaye
Mar. 05, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4000
DOS Fax Cover Sheet from Karl Hoffman to William Marriott re: Request for Team to Visit Detainees at Guantanamo
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Karl Hofmann
William P. Marriott
Karl W. Hofmann, William P. Marriott
Sept. 21, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4001
State Department cable concerning the transfer of Yaser Esam Hamdi from US custody to Saudi Arabia as reported in the newspapers.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Yaser Esam Hamdi
Aug. 23, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3997
Cover letter from Craig Mokhiber, officer-in-Charge, Office of the High Commissioner for the United Nations enclosing a letter from Prof. Cherif Bassiouni, Independent Expert for Human Rights in Afghanistan to Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Craig Mokhiber
Anne Patterson
Anne Woods Patterson
Sept. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3998
DOS Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmittal Slip: Summary of Conclusions for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees - 9/14/04
Feb. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3999
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Request to Interview Detainees at Guantanamo.
May 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3994
This State Department memo gives the State Dept.'s official position on the question of detainees/ Geneva Conventions: the Geneva Conventions apply to the conflict w/ Al Qaeda but not with the Taliban; Neither Al-Qaeda nor Taliban detainees have ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Alberto R. Gonzales, Colin L. Powell, William Howard Taft, IV
Aug. 12, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3995
Cover letter from Craig Mokhiber, Officer-in-Charge, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to U.S. Amb. to the U.N. John Danforth enclosing a letter from Prof. Cherif Bassiouni, Independent Expert for Human Rights in Afghanistan. ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Craig Mokhiber
John Danforth
John Claggett Danforth
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3996
Letter from Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador, to Professor Bassiouni responding to a request from Prof. Bassiouni to Amb. Danforth relating to travel to Afghanistan.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Anne Patterson
Anne Woods Patterson, John Claggett Danforth
May 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3992
DOS Memo re: Talking Points on the Iraqi government taking over Abu Ghraib prison and Iraqi Governance in general post the June 30, 2004 turn-over to the Iraqis. The memo states "The Iraqi criminal justice system, including a number of courts, ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush, L. Paul Bremer, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt