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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State Department cable from Washington to Mission in Kabul concerning upcoming meetings in Afghanistan on the development of the Afghan army and central bank.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable synopsizing a meeting between Sec. Powell and Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Diess concerning the geneval Conventions application to the Guantanamo detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable stating that describing how information on U.S. military commissions will be applied to the detainees at Guantanamo was being sent to Swiss Foreign Minister Poldir Sven-Olof. Heavily redacted.
State Department cable concerning the Dutch government's view that Guantanamo detainees should be treated according to Geneva conventions and international law. Some comment re: public/academics seeking more information re: policy, but not to ...
State Department cable noting that the Bahrain government and public concern over the conditions and treatment of Bahraini citizens being detained in Guantanamo has become a matter of public discussion. The Bahraini government is making a public ...
State Department cable stating that Gerard Stoudmann, Ambassador and Director of the OSCE office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) was critical of the U.S. for not implementing international law by detaining terror suspects at ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable from the Paris Mission re: French concern over the detainees in Guantanamo and the treatment of Guantanamo detainees generally. Much of the cable is redacted, however, some important points from the cable are: 1) it is ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable concerning Under Sec. of State Dobriansky's meeting with several European and Asian leaders to discuss Guantanamo detainees; the effort to end human trafficking; and the war on terrorism. The cable is long and large ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Paula J. Dobriansky
State Department cable concerning: Australian Foreign Minister's comments suggesting ways in which the U.S. and its allies can cooperate on the war on terror; The U.S. Ambassador's meeting in Brisbane; and due process for the Guantanamo ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable concerning the Canadian Prime Minister statement on the U.S. agreement to treat detainees in accordance with Geneva conventions. The cable is heavily redacted.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell