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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July 30, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3636
Letter from a non-government official denouncing the President's November 13, 2001 Military Order: Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War on Terrorism. The letter also expresses the author's concern that six detainees, ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
George W. Bush | Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush, Frank E. Schmelzer
Feroz Ali Abassi, Moazzam Begg, David Hicks
July 25, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3637
Letter from an activist denouncing the President's November 13, 2001 Military Order: Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War on Terrorism. The letter also expresses the author's regret that six detainees, including, ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell, Frank E. Schmelzer
Feroz Ali Abassi, Moazzam Begg, David Hicks
June 17, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 3634
Letters sent from various individuals at Amnesty International to George W. Bush and Colin L. Powell requesting proper treatment of detainees at Guantanamo and in Afghanistan. The main theme of the letters is the US' violation of international ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush, Frank E. Schmelzer , Donald H. Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jack Straw, John Winston Howard
Bisher Amin Khalil al Rawi, Jamil El Banna, Moazzam Begg, David Hicks, Feroz Ali Abassi
July 20, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3635
Letter from a British Citizen denouncing the President's November 13, 2001 Military Order: Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War on Terrorism. The letter also expresses the author's regret that six detainees, ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell | George W. Bush
Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush, Frank E. Schmelzer
David Hicks, Moazzam Begg, Feroz Ali Abassi
May 14, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3631
Letter from Amnesty International's Noa Kleinman, expressing concern over the non-disclosure of names/country of origin of thirteen Guantanamo detainees who were transferred for release. The letter urges the disclosure of the information. The ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell, Frank E. Schmelzer
Omar Ahmed Khadr
Isolation
May 14, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3632
Letter from Amnesty International's Noa Kleinman, expressing concern over the non-disclosure of names/country of origin of thirteen Guantanamo detainees who were transferred for release. The letter urges the disclosure of the information. The ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
George W. Bush, Frank E. Schmelzer
Omar Ahmed Khadr
Isolation
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
Oct. 03, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3629
DOS cover sheet from Amnesty International, Irene Khan, requesting to have the document passed along to Colin Powell.
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell
Jan. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3630
Memo from the Executive Secretariat summarizing different news and events taking place throughout the Middle East, January 17, 2002.
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Frank E. Schmelzer
Feb. 08, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3626
This document appears to be a cover sheet to a document entitled the Harty-Biegun Memo. [Memo/document is not included].
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Frank E. Schmelzer , Saadia Sarkis, Maura A. Harty, Stephen E. Biegun