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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Nov. 11, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3414
Detainee states he was initially questioned by members of his home government who told him that "the United States is very weak and in financial ruin because of the Trade Center bombing". Detainee also stated that the delegation told him that the ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature
Nov. 12, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4323
State Department cable providing an update on world events. The main point covered concerns an arms smuggling investigation in Bulgaria concerning prohibited weapons being shipped to Iraq and how this might impact Bulgaria's application to NATO. ...
Nov. 12, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4432
State Department memo listing the participants for the November 12, 2002 meeting between Undersecretary Grossman and Swedish State Secretary Lars Danielsson.
Jan. 12, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Marc Grossman, Henry Bisharat
Nov. 13, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2917
Email between FBI Officials re: FBI Draft Electronic Communications from Guantanamo.
Nov. 13, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2918
Memorandum requesting observations/ recommendations of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime (NCAVC) concerning the day-to-day operation of the Guantanamo Project. The memorandum was approved by Stephen Wiley and Frankie Battle. ...
Dec. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frankie Battle, Stephen R. Wiley
Nov. 13, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3364
Synopsis of memo: requested observations/recommendations of The National Center for the Analysis of Violent 'Crime (NCAVC) concerning the day-to-day operation of the GTMO Project.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Stephen R. Wiley, Frankie Battle
Nov. 14, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 1939
The email has some comments concerning seeing each other again, but the contents are otherwise completely redacted.
Dec. 21, 2005
Email
Brittain P. Mallow
Geoffrey D. Miller
Brittain P. Mallow, Geoffrey D. Miller
Nov. 14, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3756
Email from Ed Cummings with attachment of a presentation entitled: The War Against Terrorism and Combatants for delivery to a Canadian delegation.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ed Cummings
James H. Thessin
James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Barbara Barret-Spencer
Nov. 14, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3882
Request to Col. James Whitmore-DOD for redacted group to visit detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Whitney Baird
James A. Whitmore
James A. Whitmore
Nov. 14, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4146
Email from Ronald W. Miller to Donna Boltz, Leeann Bormand and Eliana Davidson re: Final Fact Sheet for PD Package with the comment "For everyone's review/comment. Simply took DoD cleared PAG and incorporated into fact sheet requested by NSC at ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
Eliana Davidson | Donna Boltz | Leeann Borman
Ronald W. Miller, Eliana Davidson, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan Scharfan