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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Oct. 13, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3407
FBI Summary Notes indicate that the detainees are upset with the way they are treated by the guards. They are upset because they are being held as prisoners without being charged with a crime and that they should be charged or released; The ...
Oct. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3917
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Brian Leventhal concerning a CBS Evening News segment that highlighted the release of a 90 year-old Afghani man being released from detention at Guantanamo. The report stated that the man was mistakenly pick up during a ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Brian H. Leventhal
Brian H. Leventhal, JoAnn J. Dolan
Oct. 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3896
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Deputies Committee Meeting on Detainees 10/16
Oct. 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4134
Email from Gilda M. Brancato to Ed Cummings forwarding Reuters artcile re: French detainees at Guantanamo complaining of psychological torture. No comments on email.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Gilda M. Brancado
Edward R. Cummings
Monica J. Tillery, Edward R. Cummings, Gilda M. Brancato, John D. Ashcroft
Mourad Benchellali, Khaled Ben Mustafa, Nizar Sassi, Ridouane Khalid, Ahmad Abd al Rahman Ahmad
Oct. 16, 2002 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2448
DOD PowerPoint presentation on Guantanamo's states that the facility is a "Long-term holding facility for detention of enemy combatants" and gives a brief descriptions of detainees and the initiatives being undertaken at the camp to ensure the ...
Oct. 16, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3899
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Deputies Committee Meeting on Detainees 10/16/02
Oct. 17, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3897
State Department cable re: Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees on: 10/18/2002 at: 14:00. Remarks: Please prepare a briefing memo with annotated agenda and checklist for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees, Friday, October 19, ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell, JoAnn J. Dolan, Beverly S. Holman
Oct. 17, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4248
State Department cable draft response to questions submitted by an attorney for a detainee held at Guantanamo. This cable contains talking points to address the status of these citizens being held at Guantanamo. The cable goes on to state; 1) The ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Oct. 18, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3409
Detainee stated that he has been in prison for nine (9) months and no one can prove he committed any crime. He also claimed he was mistreated by U.S. Army Military Police soldiers during a recent cell block search. Interview was then ended.
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Other
Oct. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3813
DOS Cover Sheet re: Request to Interview Guantanamo Detainees