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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Aug. 18, 2004 | NSA | ACLU-RDI 5827
This is a CIA Routing Slip with a fifteen (15) page memorandum attached. The Memo is fully redacted. The memo is from Condoleezza Rice, Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, "regarding [redacted] Letters on Detainees". There ...
Mar. 11, 2011
Non-legal Memo
Condoleeza Rice
Jan. 31, 2002 | WH | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4725
Routing and tranmittal cover sheets from December 2001 though February 2002 re: Detainee Detention Flow Charts. No attachements
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger, III, Daniel Dell'Orto, Eliana Davidson, Bruce Swartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Evan T. Bloom, William Howard Taft, IV
June 01, 2004 | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4710
National Security Council fax cover sheet from John Bellinger to William Howard Taft, IV. No attachments or context.
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger
William Howard Taft, IV
John B. Bellinger, III, William Howard Taft, IV
June 20, 2002 | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4711
NSC Fax Cover Sheet re: Agenda for Thursday, June 20, 2002. No additional comments. No attachments.
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger
Eliana Davidson | Daniel Dell'Orto | Matt Vaccaro
John B. Bellinger, III, Daniel Dell'Orto, Eliana Davidson, Robert A. Spencer, Daniel P. Collins, Mary Incontro, Bruce Swartz, William Howard Taft, IV, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Elliott Abrams
Dec. 11, 2003 | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4709
This is a fax cover sheet without attached pages.
June 08, 2005
Letter
Brad Wiegmann
Alberto Gonzalez | Jack L. Goldsmith | Patrick Philbin | Edward R. Cummings | William R. Gade | David Leitch | Whit Cobb
John B. Wiegmann, Alberto R. Gonzales, Jack L. Goldsmith, Patrick Philbin, Whit Cobb, Edward R. Cummings, William R. Gade