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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Apr. 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3585
Message concerning seriously mentally ill Guantanamo detainee stating; US authorities are of the view that he must be repatriated for long term care; in a meeting last week DOD Office of General Counsel advised of the urgency of finding a place ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
David A. Kaye, Edward R. Cummings, Brent E. Blaschke , Eliana Davidson
Apr. 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4092
Email refers to a cable that apparently concerns the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David A. Kaye
Steven A. Solomon | Linda Thomas-Greenfield | Edward R. Cummings | David W. Bowker | JoAnn J. Dolan | James B. Foley
David A. Kaye, Steven A. Solomon, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Edward R. Cummings, David W. Bowker, JoAnn J. Dolan, James B. Foley, Charles L. Daris
Apr. 12, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3166
FBI Memo from Behavioral Science Consultation Team to Criminal Investigations Task Force (CITF) re: Behavioral Assessment of Security and Interview Strategies and Training at Guantanamo. Report on Consultation April 2-4, 2002. Contents redacted.
Apr. 11, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3383
Summary of a FBI interview of a detainee being held at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay about his affiliation with the Taliban/Al Qaeda. Mentioned that he was transferred to Camp X-ray from Kandahar. The detainee stated he had no ties to Taliban, that ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other Humiliation, Religious, Other
Apr. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4214
State Department cable concerning the German representative to the Council of Europe. Committee of Ministers. Justice Ministry committee told U.S. Embassy officials thast military commissions are "extraordinary courts" and thus "run counter to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Colin L. Powell
Apr. 10, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 932
Army Memo re: April 10, 2002 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Charles A. Allen, Eliana Davidson, James Burger , Michael H. Mobbs, Robert A. Spencer, Brian J. Butcher, Chip Beck, Ron Young
Apr. 10, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1336
Report of Proceedings of an AR 15-6 investigation into facts and circumstances surrounding reports of inappropriate or unauthorized pictures of John Walker Lindh taken by member of Special Forces at Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan on or about ...
July 15, 2005
Investigative File (AR 15-6)
Marie A. O'Rourke
John Walker Lindh
Apr. 09, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3382
Summary of a FBI interview of a detainee being held at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo Bay about his affiliation with the Taliban and Al Qaeda. The detainee mentioned that he was transferred to Camp X-ray from Kandahar (stayed in Kandahar for 45 days ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other
Apr. 09, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4352
State Department cable concerning a gentleman who approached the embassy to inquire about his son’s status in U.S. custody at Guantanamo. The father stated that he formed a group of detainee families to act collectively to seek information, ...
Apr. 08, 2002 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 4543

An OLC memo concluding that Congress cannot interfere with the President's exercise of his authority as Commander in Chief to control the conduct of operations during war, including his authority to promulgate rules to regulate military ...

Mar. 02, 2009
Legal Memo
Patrick Philbin
Daniel J. Bryant
Patrick Philbin, Daniel J. Bryant, John C. Yoo