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 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4008
This email is a copy of the press release of the remarks of Sec. Powell and Foreign Minister Fischer concerning Iraq in the context of a new UN resolution that will be required to move forward to returning full sovereignty back to the Iraqis; ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan B. Schwartz
Ed Cummings | JoAnn J. Dolan | Todd F. Buchwald
Colin L. Powell, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Todd F. Buchwald, Condoleeza Rice, Antonio Taguba, L. Paul Bremer, Donald H. Rumsfeld
May 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4064
Emails discuss reports that the International Committee of the Red Cross is encouraging delegations to present a resolution on human rights violations of Iraqi prisoners of war U.S. forces.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David B. Sullivan
Todd F. Buchwald | Waldo W. Brooks | Katherine M. Gorove | Mary Catherine Malin
David B. Sullivan , Catherine Mary Malin, Todd F. Buchwald, Waldo W. Brooks , Katherine M. Gorove, Daniel W. Cento, Earl M. Irving, Joaquin E. Ferrao, Wendy R. Sneff, Leo C. DiBenigno, Darlyce M. Eley
May 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4155
Emails appear to discuss revisions to a document, the document may discuss the Geneva Conventions in Iraq. [Document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin
Sharon E. Ahmad, Monica J. Tillery, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin
May 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4622
This letter is from William H. Taft, IV, State Department Legal Adviser, to Christophe Girod, the Head of Delegation of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) concerning the U.S. transfer of Russian nationals from Guantanamo to ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
William Howard Taft, IV
Christopher Girod
William Howard Taft, IV, Christophe Girod
May 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4660
Hand written note from Colin Powell to Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz concerning a note from UK Foreign Minister Jack Straw.
May 18, 2005
Notes
Colin L. Powell
Donald H. Rumsfeld | Paul Wolfowitz
Colin L. Powell, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Condoleeza Rice, George J. Tenet
May 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4720
State Department fax from Debra Long the DOS UN & Legal Programme Officer to Amb. Moley forwarding a letter from the Association Against Torture to President Bush.
May 09, 2005
Letter
Debra Long
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley, George W. Bush, Debra Long
May 11, 2004 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5105
CIA copy of Washington Post article discussing prisons in Iraq, the CIA's interrogations, and the use of torture and rendition.
Mar. 15, 2013
Other
Alberto R. Gonzales, John McLaughlin, Larry Thompson, George J. Tenet
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Ramzi Bin al Shibh, Abu Zubaydah, Muhammad Saad Iqbal, Maher Arar
EIT, Sleep deprivation
May 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 5608
This is the Autopsy Report and Death Certificate of Dilar Dababa, who died while in US custody. It is reported that Mr. Dababa was injured when he was re-captured following an escape from custody. It is reported that Mr. Dababa when US forces ...
Jan. 14, 2011
Medical (Autopsy, Death Certificate)
Dilar Dababa
Physical assault, Stomach/abdominal slap
| ACLU-RDI
May 10, 2004 | DIA | ACLU-RDI 178
The document describes a meeting that discussed (among other things), the Defense Intelligence Agency's (DIA) interactions with Iraqi prisoners and the methods used in these interactions (debriefings, interviews, interrogations). The head of the ...
Nov. 08, 2004
Email
Lowell Jacoby, Keith Dayton