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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
July 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4659
Discussion of the President's classification of six detainees as enemy combatants. Discusses the government's treatment of individuals classified as enemy combatants and how they will be tried, if tried.
May 04, 2005
Cable
Ronald W. Miller
May 04, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4661
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.
May 04, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
May 04, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4663
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.
May 04, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
May 04, 2005 | ACLU-RDI 4669
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.
May 04, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4672
State Department memorandum providing background on the Prime Minister's agenda and visit with President Bush at Camp David.
May 04, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Elizabeth Jones
Colin L. Powell
George W. Bush
Oct. 28, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4675
State Department email with attached press guidance concerning the possible release of some Guantanamo detainees.
May 04, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin | Edward R. Cummings | William Howard Taft, IV | Todd F. Buchwald | Andre M. Surena
JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, William Howard Taft, IV, Todd F. Buchwald, Andre M. Surena, Ronald W. Miller
May 04, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4677
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.
May 04, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Feb. 06, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4681
State Department email concerning a meeting of the Army General Counsel and a briefing on the legal status and possible release of the Guantanamo detainees.
May 04, 2005
Email
William T. Harris
Gregory M. Suchan | William T. Harris | Lincoln P. Bloomfield
William T. Harris, Lincoln P. Bloomfield, William T. Harris
May 04, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4685
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.
May 04, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Feb. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4693
Ms. Sanford attacheda document with notes on the Guantanamo detainee issue from the American Bar Association meeting of February 24, 2004 with the following comment: "Marc Bonora (an attorney at Kirkland Ellis and classmate of mine) and I ...
May 04, 2005
Email
Christina A. Sanford
Edward R. Cummings | Todd F. Buchwald | JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Christina A. Sanford