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. 15, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3655
ICRC Press Release regarding a meeting between the President of the ICRC, Jakob Kellneberger and Colin L. Powell. It states that during Kellenberger's meeting with government officials, the ICRC president will review in particular the situation ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Other
Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, William E. Landfair
Jan. 16, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 3656
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Press Release summarizing a meeting between ICRC Kellenberger and DOS officials, including Colin L. Powell. It notes that Kellenberger, in his meetings with Powell, Rice and Wolfowitz, "lamented the ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Other
Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, William E. Landfair
May 06, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3657
[Contents completely redacted].
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald
JoAnn J. Dolan, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, Steven A. Solomon
Mar. 25, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3653
No relevant text, refers to a document entitled "IM to S POWS 3 24 03 fina." [Document is not included].
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Beverly S. Holman, JoAnn J. Dolan, Shirley Hachey, Linda S. Landers, William E. Landfair
Jan. 14, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3654
Email refers to two documents; no relevant text. [Documents are not included].
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Beverly S. Holman
Beverly S. Holman, Diane McBride, JoAnn J. Dolan, William E. Landfair
June 03, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3651
DOS Memo confirming a meeting with the ICRC on June 06.
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frank E. Schmelzer , P. Michael McKinley, John Allen Buche, Nicholas M. Miscione, Douglas Hunter
Mar. 12, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3652
Memo from the International Committee of the Red Cross outlining international humanitarian laws and the role of the ICRC.
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
William E. Landfair
Mar. 05, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3648
Email refers to the ICRC's February 2004 report on detentions in Iraq. [Content redacted; report not included].
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Carol T. Santos
Laura Parsky
Carol T. Santos, Laura H. Parsky, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, Lawrence E. Bartlett, Scott W. Busby, Richard L. Greene, P. Michael McKinley, Edward R. Cummings, Joseph P. Cassidy, Margaret J. Pollack, L. Paul Bremer, John Allen Buche
May 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3649
DOS Cable-Action request for Kabul Embassy from Colin L. Powell requesting that the government provide access to the ICRC to visit all detainees under usual ICRC conditions.
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Pierre-Richard Prosper, JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan S. Carpenter, P. Michael McKinley, Richard A. Boucher, Mitchell B. Reiss, Colin L. Powell, Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad, Frank E. Schmelzer
May 23, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3650
Memo confirming Sec. Powell's meeting with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) President Kellenberger on May 27, 2004. Meeting objectives include discussing ICRC’s ongoing concerns regarding the treatment of detainees in Afghanistan ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Arthur E. Dewey
Colin L. Powell
Arthur E. Dewey , Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad, Frank E. Schmelzer , P. Michael McKinley, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Carol T. Santos, Frank E. Schmelzer , Colin L. Powell