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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Jan. 31, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4227
State Department cable from the Paris Mission re: French concern over the detainees in Guantanamo and the treatment of Guantanamo detainees generally. Much of the cable is redacted, however, some important points from the cable are: 1) it is ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Jan. 31, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4228
State Department cable concerning Under Sec. of State Dobriansky's meeting with several European and Asian leaders to discuss Guantanamo detainees; the effort to end human trafficking; and the war on terrorism. The cable is long and large ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Paula J. Dobriansky
Jan. 31, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4350
State Department cable concerning the world's perception that the US was treating its detainees improperly was undermining the moral high ground upon which the anti-terror coalition stands. The cable also gives some insight to off-record meetings ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell, Daniel Ray Coats
Jan. 31, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4422
Email from David Bowker to Bill Deere with an attachment entitled "H paper for Powell on Detainee…"
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
David W. Bowker
Bill H. Deere
Colin L. Powell, David W. Bowker
Jan. 31, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 4655
Emanl from Ed Cummings concerning the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) going to Guantanamo to meet with the detainees. the comments are: FYI: I called last night (Wed.) with three questions I He indicated that at the meeting last ...
Jan. 02, 2005
Email
Edward R. Cummings
Steven A. Solomon | Linda Thomas-Greenfield | Nicholas M. Miscione | David A. Kaye | David W. Bowker | Betsy A. Lippman | Alan J. Kreczko
Edward R. Cummings, Steven A. Solomon, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Nicholas M. Miscione, Alan Kreczko, David A. Kaye, David W. Bowker, James H. Thessin, William Howard Taft, IV
Jan. 31, 2002 | WH | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4725
Routing and tranmittal cover sheets from December 2001 though February 2002 re: Detainee Detention Flow Charts. No attachements
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger, III, Daniel Dell'Orto, Eliana Davidson, Bruce Swartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Evan T. Bloom, William Howard Taft, IV
Jan. 30, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3559
State Department Cable to the overseas US Missions with information and talking points to address questions raised by allies in relation to and over the legal status, treatment and detention of detainees at Guantanamo. Specifically, the cable ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Jan. 30, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3609
No relevant text
Jan. 30, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3790
State Department talking points on addressing questions about the legal status and treatment of detainees is addressed. The cable states that foreign governments should be told: The legal status of the detainees is currently being reviewed; all ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, David A. Kaye
Jan. 30, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3807
State Department cable to deliver a letter from Sec. of State Powell to Hubert Vedribe concerning Guantanamo detainees. The letter states "Dear Hubert: My government fully shares the view expressed in your letter of January 15 regarding the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper