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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June 24, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3612
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DOS | ACLU-RDI 3613
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July 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3614
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Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell, Frank E. Schmelzer
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3615
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Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Other
July 30, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3616
No relevant text.
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Frank E. Schmelzer
Dec. 11, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3617
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Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Frank E. Schmelzer
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3618
Photographs are indiscernible.
Nov. 23, 2004
Photograph
Frank E. Schmelzer
May 10, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3619
This DOS Cable appears to be a cover sheet for an attached document. [Attached document is not included].
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Apr. 01, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3620
This DOS Cable discusses a visit to a detention facility in Afghanistan. It explains that there was a previous issue at the facility of overcrowding and lack of resources, but that the current climate is better. Also, the cable notes that the ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Robert P. Finn, Colin L. Powell, Laura E. Kennedy , Franklin Pierce Huddle, Jr., Ryan C. Crocker, John Edward Herbst, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad
Isolation
Feb. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3621
State Department memo discussing a recent petition filed by the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) against the U.S.. The CCR's petition alleges that the U.S. government's treatment ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Otto J. Reich | Roger F. Noriega
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Otto J. Reich, Roger F. Noriega, Frank E. Schmelzer