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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July 02, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 4023
Letter from UN Commission on Human Rights to U.S. Ambassador Kevin Edward Moley re: Request for Information on Detainee Treatment and Legal Status. The letter refers to Commission resolutions on torture and requests investigation into allegations ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Theo van Boven | Leandro Despouy | Paul Hunt
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
Dec. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4024
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Feb. 08, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4020
State Department cable advising Washington that the U.S. Ambassador Farish received a Letter dated February 8, 2002 from a law firm representing a detainee held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo. The letter requests access to the detainee, a meeting ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
William Stamps Farish
Jonathan M. Crock
William Stamps Farish, IV, Jonathan M. Crock
Dec. 10, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4021
State Department cable to Washington stating: "Mission has received a letter from the Special Rapporteur on Torture of the Commission on Human Rights requesting, for a second time, information on 'allegations of torture or ill-treatment' of ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Jonathan M. Crock
Jonathan M. Crock, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Michael T. Peay
Mar. 26, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4017
This cable sent from the Paris Mission sent to State Department Headquarters with the following synopsis: “On March 19, 2002, post received a letter addressed to the Ambassador from the attorneys of the families of detainees who are allegedly in ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
JoAnn J. Dolan, Colin L. Powell, Bruce Swartz, John B. Bellinger, III, Eliana Davidson
Oct. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4018
This State Department cable is a set of talking points to address the issue of a cameraman who is allegedly detained at Guantanamo. The cable refers to two (2) letters; 1) September 16, 2002; and 2) June 4, 2002 from a redacted source asking the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Eliana Davidson, Jonathan Scharfan, Ross Hyams
Oct. 20, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4019
State Department cable re: formal request for access to the Guantanamo detainees of a certain nationality (not disclosed). The cable states: "In a 10/20 meeting at the MFA, DCM informed MFA Americas Desk Director of [U.S. government's] to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Stephanie J. Molnar
Jan. 15, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4015
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Ed Cummings, Joshua Dorosin and Others re: PC Memo in Detainee-as sent. There is an attachment on the email, but the attachment is not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Waldo W. Brooks | Todd F. Buchwald | Andre M. Surena | Steve A. Solomon
Ronald W. Miller, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Waldo W. Brooks , Todd F. Buchwald, Andre M. Surena, Steven A. Solomon
Apr. 30, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4016
A Proposed response to Patton Boggs lawyers attachment (not included).
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Waldo W. Brooks
Todd F. Buchwald | Curtis A. Bradley | Philo L. Dibble | James Burger | Aaron W. Jost
Waldo W. Brooks , Todd F. Buchwald, Curtis A. Bradley, Philo L. Dibble, James Burger , Aaron W. Jost
Sept. 06, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4012
Emails between Joann Dolan Newell Highsmith, Ted Borek and Others re: BM D.Hoon 9.11.02 Inputs due by Friday, September 6, 2002. Redacted message; Request for briefing memo inputs.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ted A. Borek | Todd F. Buchwald | Newell L. Highsmith | Priscilla G. Hernandez
JoAnn J. Dolan, Todd F. Buchwald