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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Jan. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3633
DOS Memo summarizes various events that have occurred around the world, including news that the International Committee of the Red Cross' has commenced to meet with detainees at Guantanamo. [Contents redacted].
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frank E. Schmelzer
Jan. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4104
State Department press release announcing the transfer of six (6) terror suspects from the government of Boznia and Herzegovina to U.S. forces.
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Richard A. Boucher
Richard A. Boucher
Jan. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4118
DOE talking points memo on Q&As concerning Bosnia's handing over six Algerian/Bosnian terror suspects to US forces, and their subsequent transfer to Guantanamo.
Jan. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4420
Email with attachment of State Department talking popints to address questions concerning Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees. Mr. Kaye writes in his comments "Folks - As many of you know, our posts abroad are geiting easing ilijibbef of questions ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
David A. Kaye
Kara L. Bue
David A. Kaye, Kara L. Bue, James Burger , James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Evan T. Bloom, David W. Bowker
Jan. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4756
Statement by Philip T. Reeker, Deputy Spokesman for the State Department, regarding the transfer of six terror suspects from Bosnia and Herzegovina to U.S.. The statement states "The United States commends and strongly supports the resolute ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Philip T. Reeker
Jan. 19, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3920
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: May 1 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
Jan. 19, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3931
This State Department cable provides talking points for US mission & Embassy officials to inform foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. It ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Brent E. Blaschke , Evan T. Bloom, John B. Bellinger, III
Jan. 20, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 3576
This State Department cable is to US Missions/Embassies informing them that they should inform the governments where they are located about the transfer of that government's citizens/nationals to Guantanamo, and to share the information ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Jan. 21, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1806
This is a statement of an interpreter was states he was told by a detainee that the detainee was hit in the back of the head while hooded and in transit, possibly with the butt of a gun/rifle. The detainee was unable to identify or describe the ...
Dec. 21, 2005
Investigative File, Interview (Statement)
Physical assault, General
Jan. 22, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 2413
Javier Zuniga of Amnesty International letter to Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld asking for permission for an Amnesty International delegation to visit Guantanamo Bay detention facility "to observe the conditions under which prisoners are detained ...
June 15, 2006
Letter
Javier Zuniga
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Donald H. Rumsfeld