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. 23, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3761
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Deputies Committee Meeting on Guantanamo Detainees
Oct. 27, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3762
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Draft Summary of Conclusions for Deputies Committee meeting on Guantanamo Detainees.
Jan. 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3763
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for NSC Meeting on Detainees - 12/15/03
Dec. 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3764
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. 29, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3767
Email forwarding January 29, 2002 newspaper article concerning Australian Taliban David Hicks legal ffforts to be freed from U.S. custody.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Beverly S. Holman
Beverly S. Holman
David Hicks
June 08, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3770

Fax cover sheet from the Office of the State Department Legal Advisor William H. Taft, IV to Jim Haynes, DoD, General Counsel, Jack Goldsmith, Assistant Attorney General and John Bellinger, NSC. Attachement not included.

Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
William Howard Taft, IV
John Bellinger | William J. Haynes, II | Jack L. Goldsmith
William Howard Taft, IV, William J. Haynes, II, Jack L. Goldsmith, John B. Bellinger, III, Marianne J. Hata
June 01, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3772
Fax cover Sheet from William H. Taft, IV, DOS to John Bellinger, NSC. Attachment not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
William Howard Taft, IV
John Bellinger
William Howard Taft, IV, John B. Bellinger, III
July 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3773
Gene Dewey, State Department Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration forwarded this news article about an Army reservist loved by Iraqi detainees for her kindness to Richard Boucher as an example of "Good News" about ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Arthur E. Dewey
Richard A. Boucher
Arthur E. Dewey , Richard A. Boucher
Jan. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3774
This State Department cable provides talking points concerning informing foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. The cable instructs the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Brent E. Blaschke , Pierre-Richard Prosper
Jan. 16, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3775
State Department cable regarding prosecution of non-Afghanis fighting with Al-Qaeda or the Taliban. The cable states that an investigation of such persons will be carried out and, in the event that it is established that criminal acts were ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell