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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This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: February 7 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: February 9 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: February 11 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: February 13 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
DOS Cable regarding a letter from Special Rapporteur on Torture, Theo van Boven, to Ambassador Bremen regarding the detention of four individuals in Basra, Iraq. The letter reports that the detainees are being held incommunicado by the UK ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
L. Paul Bremer, Colin L. Powell, Thomas A. Johnson
DOS Press Release asking if the ICRC has access to detainees in Iraq, including detainees at Abu Ghraib. The answer is yes.
Nov. 23, 2004
Other
Jonathan S. Carpenter, P. Michael McKinley, Frank E. Schmelzer
DOS cover letter for six page document(s) discussing Afghanistan detention of captured persons.
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Maura Harty
Maura A. Harty, Frank E. Schmelzer

CID investigative report and accompanying documents into an incident of rioting during which detainees were shot and killed by Marines at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. The investigation concluded that the detainees had been attempting to escape. ...

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID), Photograph
Khalid Abbas Mahmood, Musa Abbas Farhan, Abbas Khalid Hamed, Khaled Aposs

CID report of investigation and accompanying documents into the death of a detainee at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq. The cause of death was determined to be natural.

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
John Peterson, Jacqueline J. Scott
Wathik Salah Mihdy

CID report of investigation and accompanying documents into the alleged theft of money from an Iraqi civilian by a U.S. soldier during a search of the Iraqi’s vehicle at a check point in Baghdad, Iraq. Investigation determined there was ...

Nov. 08, 2004
Investigative File (CID)
Jacqueline J. Scott