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 29, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1296
This Commander’s Inquiry in to an incident at the Guantanamo Bay hospital facility where a detainee became violent and attempted to assault military personnel by tossing a jar of urine upon them and using a metal chair by throwing it at the ...
May 29, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4216
State Department cable distributes transcript from the May 29, 2002 press conference where a variety of subjects were addressed. Among the issued raised were: i) Deputy Sec. Armitage meets with Swedish Defense Minister Bjorn Von Sydow; ii) ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Richard Lee Armitage, Colin L. Powell
May 28, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3691
DOS Memo re: Talking Points on Guantanamo Detainees Treatment and Status. Memo states i) all detainees are treated humanely; ii) they are given three (3) culturally appropriate meals a day; iii) International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) ...
May 24, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 5184
Memo indicating that the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) is closing investigation. The memo refers to a March 15, 2001 letter sent to Senator Warren Rudman by General Counsel, Office of General Counsel, and two electronic ...
May 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4429
Email from Henry Bisharat to JoAnn Dolan forwarding an email with attachment concerning a meeting of Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage with the Swedish Defense Minister Bjorn von Sydow.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Henry Bisharat
JoAnn J. Dolan
Henry Bisharat, JoAnn J. Dolan, Richard Lee Armitage
May 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3127
Translated Interview of Guantanamo detainee re: conditions/treatment at Guantanamo. The detainee stated he was beaten unconscious approximately three or four weeks ago when he was still at Camp X-Ray. Stated that an unknown number of guards ...
May 22, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 4943
FBI interview of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who appears to have a great deal of experience with the Jihadist movement since 1989 and has come in to contact with many of the major figures and events in Islam and the Middle East that have defined ...
May 21, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3384
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was asked about his affiliation with the Taliban/Al Qaeda. The detainee stated that he "did not use anti-American rhetoric in his lectures." Also stated that in Bagram, he was ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Nudity
May 21, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3473
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The detainee initially refused to answer questions unless he was released from his present cell. When asked about his previous statement about being a member of [redacted] he advised that he only made that ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Physical assault, General
May 21, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4239
State Department cable concerning a meeting with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) regarding the Global War on Terror. The cable states there was an informal meeting with ICRC officials to discuss military commissions and the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Edward R. Cummings, Steven A. Solomon, David W. Bowker, James Burger , Waldo W. Brooks , William Lietzau