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. 24, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3758
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees - 1/16
Nov. 17, 2004 | DOS | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3759
State Department presentation delivered by Adam Roberts, Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and Fellow of Balliol College, entitled "Counter-terrorism, Armed Force and the Laws of War."
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Adam Roberts
July 21, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3760
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees - 7/15/03
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
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
Jan. 15, 2002 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3768
Cover letter from Francois Bujon de l'Esiang to Sec. of State forwarding communique from French Minister of Foreign Affairs Hubert Vedrine.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Francois Bujon de l'Esiang
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Mar. 26, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3769
Fax cover sheet from Jean-Philippe Lavoyer to State Department legal Advisor Taftr forwarding a communique from Francios Bugnlon, Director for international Law and Cooperation within the Movement (attachment not included).
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jean-Philippe Lavoyer
William Howard Taft, IV
William Howard Taft, IV
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