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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June 25, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3891
State Department Cable re: Repatriated Russian Guantanamo Detainees Released by Russian Procuracy. The seven Russian detainees from the Guantanamo military base that were previously handed over by the United States to the Russian Government have ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Bruce Swartz
Aug. 07, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3893
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Deputies Committee Meeting on Detention Issues 8/8
Aug. 08, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3894
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Deputies Committee Meeting on Detention Issues 8/8
Sept. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3895
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Deputies Committee Meeting on High-Interest: Detainee 9/26 12:30-1:00 pm
Oct. 17, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3897
State Department cable re: Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees on: 10/18/2002 at: 14:00. Remarks: Please prepare a briefing memo with annotated agenda and checklist for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees, Friday, October 19, ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell, JoAnn J. Dolan, Beverly S. Holman
Oct. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3898
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Deputies Committee Meeting on Detainees
Oct. 16, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3899
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Deputies Committee Meeting on Detainees 10/16/02
Oct. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3900
DOS Office of the Legal Advisor interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Deputies Committee Meeting on Detainees 10/16/02
Oct. 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3901
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of conclusions for Deputies Committee meeting on detainees - 10/16
Jan. 16, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3902
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Deputies Committee Meeting on Detainees 10/18/02