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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Mar. 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3941
This State Department cable provides talking points for US mission & Embassy officials to inform foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. It ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Richard A. Boucher, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan
Mar. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3942
Re: draft cable detainees release giving editing comments.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Joshua L. Dorosin
Lisa D. Miller | Sylvia Curran | Tina Kaidanow
Joshua L. Dorosin, Lisa D. Miller , Tina S. Kaidanow, Sylvia Reed Curran
Oct. 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3944
Email from Nina Schou to JoAnn Dolan and others Re: talkers on arrest and detention of aliens. The email has an attachment of a response submitted at the Commission on Human Rights that had been drafted with input from Quynh Vu of the Office of ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Nina E. Schou
JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Dawn Burton | Gilda M. Brancado | Jason Torchinsky | Linda Johnson | Laura Flippin | Mona M. Ragheb
Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Nina E Schou, Gilda M. Brancato, Jason Torchinsky, Laura L. Flippin , Mona M. Ragheb , Dawn M. Burton
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3946
Emails between JoAnn Dolan and Tomas Dukes and Others re: Comments by Australian Foreign Minister re Hicks, Habib, and Miltary Commissions. This is a forward of AAP Newsfeed article (11/11/2003 by Paul Mulvey) and has several recipients.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Thomas Dukes
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Thomas Dukes, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Thomas Hemingway, Frederic L. Borch, Sean Connolly
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3947
This email is a forward from JoAnn Dolan to Ronal Miller and others of an article in Nationwide News Party Limited, concerning Military Commissions for Foreign Detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ronald W. Miller | Ed Cummings | John W. Crowley
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Todd F. Buchwald, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Thomas Dukes, Whit Cobb
Dec. 11, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3948
Emails between Nina Schou, Robert Harris, JoAnn Dolan, Todd Buchwald and Others re: Human rights groups and members of the small overseas community of ethnic Uyghurs are urging the United States to scrap any plans to send back to China ethnic ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Nina E. Schou
Robert K. Harris | JoAnn J. Dolan | Todd F. Buchwald | Samuel M. Witten
Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Nina E Schou, Joshua L. Dorosin, Samuel M. Witten, Ronald W. Miller
Feb. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3950
This email from JoAnn Dolan forwardeding a transcript of UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's statements regarding UK citizens detained at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | Ronald W. Miller | Thomas Dukes | Ed Cummings | James H. Thessin | Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, Thomas Dukes, Karen L. Hecker, James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Laura H. Parsky
Jan. 28, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3952
State Department talking points states that the legal status of detainees is being revied and that treatment of detainees is consistent the the Geneva conventions.
Dec. 10, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3954
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: National Security Council Meeting on Detainees.
Dec. 08, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3955
Letter from Nury A. Turkel, General Secretary, Uyghur American Association to Secretary of State Colin Powell requesting that the U.S. not returning the Uyghurs to China out of concern that they will be subject to persecution and torture. Mr. ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Nury A. Turkel
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell