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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Feb. 07, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 3791
Interview with White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, including a discussion of Pakistan and the Daniel Pearl kidnapping.
Dec. 30, 2004
Interview
Ari Fleischer, Richard B. Cheney, Colin L. Powell, Donald H. Rumsfeld
Feb. 07, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 3792
Interview with White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer concerning the various legal issue involved in the applicability of the Geneva Convention as it pertains to detainees and the Vice President's traveling to Kuwait, Egypt, the United Arab ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Interview
Ari Fleischer, George W. Bush, Richard B. Cheney
Jan. 29, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3788
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Detainees in Cuba.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Evan T. Bloom, David A. Kaye, Samuel M. Witten
Jan. 29, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3789
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Al Qaida Terrorists Killed.
Jan. 30, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3790
State Department talking points on addressing questions about the legal status and treatment of detainees is addressed. The cable states that foreign governments should be told: The legal status of the detainees is currently being reviewed; all ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, David A. Kaye
Dec. 18, 2001 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3785
Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia) News Article re: CIA Grills Aussie Traitor Aboard Ship - David Hicks
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
David Hicks
Jan. 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3786
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Detainees in Cuba.
Jan. 29, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3787
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary Combatants Get Humane Treatment.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Evan T. Bloom, David A. Kaye, Samuel M. Witten
Dec. 28, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3783
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.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Dec. 18, 2001 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3784
Fax Cover Sheet from the Australian Embassy Washington to Ambassador Prosper re: Australian Detainee David Hicks and an Australian press item of 18 December, 2001
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Susan Dietz
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper
David Hicks