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 03, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4668
This letter is a response from the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bill Graham to Nathan J. Whitling of Parke McLaws Barristers & Solicitors, concerning a Guantanamo detainee Omar Ahmed Khadr, who is a Canadian citizen. Mr. Graham ...
June 08, 2005
Letter
Bill Graham
Nathan J. Whitling
Omar Ahmed Khadr
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4670
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Jan. 22, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4671
Cover page for document to be delivered to administration personnel concerning the January 22, 2004 PCC meeting on detainees.
June 08, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Bruce Swartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Eliana Davidson, John B. Wiegmann
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4673
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.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4674
State Department cover sheet for delivery of documents re: PCC Meeting on Detainees
June 08, 2005
Other
John Bellinger
JoAnn J. Dolan | Pierre-Richard Prosper | Anthony Fortune
John B. Bellinger, III, JoAnn J. Dolan, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, Anthony Fortune, Jay Alan Liotta, Bruce Swartz, Diane E. Beaver, Eliana Davidson, Patrick Rowan
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4676
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.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4678
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.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Apr. 04, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4679
Emails between Mathew Waxman and Amb. Prosper concering a meeting on the detainees. The comments from Mr. Waxman are "Am I correct that what we need -- and I think this is what Pierre was recommending -- is a one-page sheet BEFORE we get to these ...
June 08, 2005
Email
Mathew C. Waxman
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper, Matthew C. Waxman, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller
Nov. 07, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4680
Email from Laurel Miller with the following comment "rom detainee policy working group at OSD just called to give us the heads up a sensitive and potentially inflammatory photos of detainees being moved by aircraft in theater are now circulating ...
June 08, 2005
Email
Laurel E. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan | David L. Scott | Brian H. Leventhal | Atul Keshap | Kara L. Bue | Geeta Pasi
Laurel E. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, David L. Scott, Brian H. Leventhal, Atul Keshap, Kara L. Bue, Geeta Pasi
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4682
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld