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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July 31, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4401
State Department talking points on 1) Isreal/Palestinians: Roadmap Progress; 2) Iraq: World Bank loans for reconstruction; 3) Iraq: Appointment of governing council President, return of Iraqi refugees, Amnesty International report on internal ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
July 31, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4402
State Department talking points on 1) Isreal/Palestinians: Roadmap Progress; 2) Iraq: World Bank loans for reconstruction; 3) Iraq: Appointment of governing council President, return of Iraqi refugees, Amnesty International report on internal ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
July 30, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1631
Medical records of a 37 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to abdomen. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries or what detention facility he ...
July 30, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1632
Medical records of a 35 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to head and torso. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries or what detention ...
July 30, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1633
Medical records of a 27 year-old Iraqi male, Enemy Prisoner of War (EPW) admitted to hospital with gunshot wound to right hand. The medical records do not give any indication as to how the detainee received his injuries or what detention facility ...
July 30, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 2416
Letter is from a 29 year old British citizen, with copies sent to Colin Powell, Jack Straw (UK Home Secretary), William Farish (US Ambassador to UK), John Howard (PM of Australia) and his local MP (Member of Parliament) in the UK. The letter ...
June 15, 2006
Letter
Paul Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz, Colin L. Powell, Jack Straw, John Winston Howard, Stephen Creswell Timms , William Stamps Farish, IV
Feroz Ali Abassi, Moazzam Begg, David Hicks
July 30, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3616
No relevant text.
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Frank E. Schmelzer
July 30, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3636
Letter from a non-government official denouncing the President's November 13, 2001 Military Order: Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War on Terrorism. The letter also expresses the author's concern that six detainees, ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
George W. Bush | Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush, Frank E. Schmelzer
Feroz Ali Abassi, Moazzam Begg, David Hicks
July 30, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4451
State Department Cable re: Corrected Information Regarding Nationally of Detainees at Guantanamo – no other content or context
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
July 30, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4461
State Department cable concerning the identification of detainees at Guantanamo. Specifically, the cable states "It was recently discovered that several detainees transferred to Guantanamo who were previously reported to be nationals of ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Colin L. Powell