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. 25, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4386
State Department cable announcing authorization to enter in to talks with other governments to take or receive their own citizens that are Guantanamo detainees for detention and potential prosecution in their home country. The cable is otherwise ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Richard Lee Armitage
Jan. 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4382
State Department cable concerning Sec. of State Powell's upcoming meeting with the Swiss Foreign Minister Calmy-Rey. Document mostly redacted.
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Mar. 12, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4383
State Department cable concerning Ambassador Prosper's March 10-11 Visit to Copenhagen for dialogue with Danish government. Includes summary of discussions of Guantanamo detainees, dialogue with NGOs, including questions of torture. Document has ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Mar. 18, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4384
State Department cable requesting guidance on responding to requesting information on two (2) detainees previously turned over to the U.S. and held at Guantanamo. The Country requesting the information was the country that turned their own ...
Aug. 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4380
State Department fax cover sheet from Holly Palubiak, Political Officer, U.S. Embassy, London to Ronald Miller. No comments or attachemnts.
Dec. 23, 2004
Letter
Holly Palubiak
Ronald W. Miller
Ronald W. Miller, Holly Palubiak
Jan. 22, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4381
State Department cable forwarding on to Washington a letter received from Louis Joinet, the UN Special Rapporteur of Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concerning the deprivation of liberty at Guantanamo, and requesting information on the ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Kevin Edward Moley
July 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4376
DOS Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmittal Slip with the handwritten note "looks like the ball is in petitioner's court."
Dec. 23, 2004
Letter
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | James H. Thessin | David W. Bowker
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, James H. Thessin, David W. Bowker
Mar. 26, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4375
State Department talking points on the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Rotational Move at Guantanamo. It concerns a report that the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) will be "pulling-out" of Guantanamo and have no ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Edward R. Cummings, David W. Bowker, John Allen Buche
DOS | ACLU-RDI 4369
State Department talking points on fielding questions concerning the detentiona and humane treatment of captured terrorists.
DOS | ACLU-RDI 4370
State Department talking points on the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo. The main points being made are: 1) All accusations of mistreatment are taken seriously and fully investigated; 2) Torture and other forms of cruel treatment committed by ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Ronald W. Miller
George W. Bush, Ronald W. Miller, Rexon Y. Ryu, JoAnn J. Dolan