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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Dec. 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3732
This State Department cable relates a letter received from Theo van Boven, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, concerning the status of detention procedures and the military justice to be applied to certain detainees. Mr. Boven also ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Kevin Edward Moley
Dec. 28, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3734
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
Jan. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3735
This State Department memo states who the participants are for a meeting with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) being held on January 25, 2002.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
William Howard Taft, IV, Paula J. Dobriansky
Jan. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3736
List of issues to be disucssed at meeting with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) , including confidentiality, how to deal with press, and have ICRC acknowledge that DOD has the lead and that they've been debriefed.
May 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3740
State Department fax to Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn Dolan and Ed Cummings forwarding letters from International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) President Jakob Kellenberger to Sec. of State Powell, Condoleeza Rice and Douglas Feith thanking them ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Carrie Santos
Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan | Ed Cummings
Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Douglas J. Feith, JoAnn J. Dolan
Feb. 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3745
Email from JoAnn Dolan forwarding an email to Ed Cummings concerning Amb. Prosper's meeting in Stockholm with ICRC officials.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ed Cummings
Edward R. Cummings, David A. Kaye, Ronald W. Miller
Jan. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3749
Briefing memorandum from Alan Kreczko (PRM) to Under Secretary Paula Dobriansky re: meeting with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Delegation Urs Boegli and Deputy Head of Protectino Paul Bonard. Mostly redacted.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Alan Kreczko
Paula Dobriansky
Alan Kreczko, Paula J. Dobriansky
May 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3750
These are Five (5) State Department cables to Kabul and Geneva with "Subject: Response to International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC)". There is no other discernible information or context.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
Dec. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3751
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
Mar. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3755
This is a DOS Routing and Transmittal Slip for DOS Officials to initial - re: UK Detainees at Guantanamo Bay: Application for Judicial Review
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jonathan B. Schwartz
JoAnn J. Dolan | Ed Cummings | David Kaye
JoAnn J. Dolan, Evan T. Bloom, David W. Bowker, Edward R. Cummings, Andre M. Surena, David A. Kaye