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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Mar. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3798
This is a DOS Routing and Transmittal Slip for DOS Officials to initial - re: UK Detainees at Guantanamo Bay: Application for Judicial Review
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jonathan B. Schwartz
JoAnn J. Dolan | Ed Cummings | David Kaye
JoAnn J. Dolan, Evan T. Bloom, David W. Bowker, Edward R. Cummings, Andre M. Surena, David A. Kaye
Nov. 26, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3799
DOS Memo re: Background on Detainee Policy. This is part of a larger memo that is not attached herein. The background information contained here states: On November 13, 2001, President Bush issued a Military order authorizing the detention of ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush, Donald H. Rumsfeld
Aug. 15, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3800
This letter is from Ann Clwyd, Member of the British Parliament on behalf of an All-Party Parliamentary Human Group expressing concern over treatment of detainees held at Guantanamo. She voices concern over the "legal limbo" the detainees are in ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Ann Clwyd
Glyn Davies
JoAnn J. Dolan
Mar. 20, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3801
Fax Cover Sheet from Amnesty International to Secretary of State Powell re: Human Rights and the War in Iraq. No attachments included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
| ACLU-RDI 3802
Press release entitled "Government Accepts Military Commissions for Guantanamo Bay Detainees" concerning the matter of David Hicks, an Australian accused of being a Taliban fighter and held in Guantanamo
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
George W. Bush
David Hicks, Abdul Habib
May 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3803
Press article from an Australian newspaper concerning David Hicks, an Australian accused of being a Taliban fighter and his detention at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
David Hicks
May 20, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3804
News artice from The Australian concerning David Hicks, an Australian accused of being a Taliban fighter and his detention at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
David Hicks, Sha Mohammed Alikhel
Apr. 21, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3805
U.N. Security Council Resolution 1538 (2004) welcomes the appointment of the independent high-level inquiry into the Oil-for-food Program.
Jan. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3806
State Department notification to foreign governments of pending transfer of detainees to Guantanamo of their citizens. The cable gives the talking points that the transfer is to ensure safety and security of coalition forces and the detainees. ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell, Evan T. Bloom
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