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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Dec. 10, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4021
State Department cable to Washington stating: "Mission has received a letter from the Special Rapporteur on Torture of the Commission on Human Rights requesting, for a second time, information on 'allegations of torture or ill-treatment' of ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Jonathan M. Crock
Jonathan M. Crock, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Michael T. Peay
Nov. 26, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3966
Email from Clifton Johnson forwarding an article in the Independent (UK) with the headline "Guantanamo treatment is 'monstrous', says law lord", Dated November 26, 2003. The forwarding comments are: "Folks, The story below was in today's ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Clifton M. Johnson
Pierre-Richard Prosper | JoAnn J. Dolan | Jonathan M. Crock | Todd F. Buchwald | David A. Kaye
Clifton M. Johnson, Pierre-Richard Prosper, JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan M. Crock, Todd F. Buchwald
July 14, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3962
Email from Mark W. Libby to Jonathan Crock re: Briefing Request. Remarks: Per Whitaker/Prosper conversation, please prepare a briefing memo for the Secretary's participation in this PC. Please deliver final, fully cleared memo to S/ES-S no later ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Mark W. Libby
Jonathan M. Crock
Jonathan M. Crock, Pierre-Richard Prosper
June 05, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4308
Email from Diana Valderrama to Jonathan Crock and Ronald W. Miller in response to the Embassy in Mexico City requesting guidance in answering an Amnesty International inquiry on the treatment of detainees who are children. Ms. Valderrama's ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Diana Valderrama
Jonathan M. Crock | Ronald W. Miller
Christopher N. Camponovo, Jonathan M. Crock, Ronald W. Miller
May 05, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4109
State Department talking points memo entitled: Guantanamo: U.S. Policy on Detainees - May 5, 2003. The memo states: A process is underway to reach a final determination on all detainees. Each detainee will be prosecuted or continue to be detained ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Jonathan M. Crock
Donald H. Rumsfeld, Colin L. Powell, Jonathan M. Crock, JoAnn J. Dolan, Gregory M. Suchan, Bridget A. Brink, Dean H. Pittman
Apr. 28, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3960
Email from Jonathan Crock to JoAnn Dolan re "Saudi cable" sent to DOD. Doc not listed in DOS log.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan M. Crock
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Eliana Davidson, Charles A. Allen, Jonathan M. Crock
Nov. 08, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4086
Email refers to a press guidance that requires clearance for a briefing. [Document not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan M. Crock
JoAnn J. Dolan | Bridget A. Brink | David L. Scott | Jason H. Greer
Jonathan M. Crock, JoAnn J. Dolan, Bridget A. Brink, Jason H. Greer, Charles L. Daris
Feb. 08, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4020
State Department cable advising Washington that the U.S. Ambassador Farish received a Letter dated February 8, 2002 from a law firm representing a detainee held in U.S. custody at Guantanamo. The letter requests access to the detainee, a meeting ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
William Stamps Farish
Jonathan M. Crock
William Stamps Farish, IV, Jonathan M. Crock
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3932
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, Jonathan M. Crock, James A. Larocco
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