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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Nov. 10, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3667
This is a letter from U.S. representative in the UK as the Director of United Kingdom, Benelux, and Ireland Affairs to Ms. Helen Clark, MP, UK House of Commons thanking her for her recent letter and concerns over the detainment and treatment of ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Alexander Karagiannis
Helen Clark
Alexander Karagiannis
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3674
This letter from Amb. Prosper to Margot Kessler of the European Parliament is in response to a letter Ms. Kessler sent to Sec. of State Powell concerning the status and treatment of detainees at Guantanamo. Amb. Prosper states that "The United ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Margot Kessler
Pierre-Richard Prosper, George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell
| ACLU-RDI 3675
This letter from Amb. Prosper to Helmut Hausle is in response to a letter Mr. Hausle sent to Sec. of State Powell concerning the status and treatment of detainees at Guantanamo. Amb. Prosper states that "The United States and its Coalition ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Dr. Helmut Hausle
Pierre-Richard Prosper, George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell
Feb. 23, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3640
This is a letter from Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ambassador-At-Large for War Crimes Issues, to Tausif Paracha regarding the Treatment of detainees in Afghanistan. In the letter Amb. Prosper states: Let me assure you... President Bush has affirmed on ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Tausif Paracha
George W. Bush, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Colin L. Powell
Nov. 23, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 4642
Letter from David N. Kelley, DOJ, to Lawrence S. Lustberg, of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., attorneys for the ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Sean H. Lane | David N. Kelley | Peter M. Skinner
Lawrence S. Lustberg
David N. Kelley, Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner
Oct. 15, 2004 | DOD-OGC | ACLU-RDI 316
A document production cover letter from the Department of Defense to the ACLU in the ACLU's FOIA litigation for documents related to the treatment of detainees. The letter notes the release of the Taguba Report and some documents from the Defense ...
Oct. 19, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Stewart F. Aly
Megan Lewis
Stewart F. Aly, Sean H. Lane, Antonio Taguba
Nov. 03, 2003 | CIA-OGC | ACLU-RDI 4
Letter to Human Rights Watch responding to HRW's November 15, 2003 letter (at CIA000008-CIA000009) requesting a visit to CIA detention facilities in Afghanistan. Letter does not respond to request to visit. States that "I can assure you ... that ...
May 18, 2004
Letter
Scott W. Muller
Brad Adams
Scott W. Muller
Mar. 11, 2011 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 5824
This is a cover letter from Preet Bharara, US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, to Alex Abdo, of the American Civil Liberties Union, concerning FOIA document production re: ACLU v. CIA 10 Civ. 7092 (AKH).
Letter, Other
Preet Bharara
Alexander Abdo
Preet Bharara, Tara M. LaMorte
Jan. 20, 2011 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 5823
Letter from Preet Bharara , US Attorney for the So. Dist. of New York, to Alex Abdo, Attorneyfor the ACLU, concerning document production under FOIA.
Letter, Other
Preet Bharara
Alexander Abdo
Preet Bharara, Tara M. LaMorte