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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May 15, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4687
White House Cover Sheet re: Transmission Receipt of SOC for PC Meeting on Detainees
May 08, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4688
White House Cover Sheet re: Agenda for 12 May PC Meeting on Detainees
May 28, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4689
White House Cover Sheet re: Agenda and Discussion Paper for PC Meeting on Detainees
June 29, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4690
White House Cover Sheet re: PC Meeting on 1 July 2004
June 03, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4691
White House Cover Sheet re: SOC for 1 Jun PC Meeting on Detainees.
Nov. 13, 2001 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4704
Presidential Military Order concerning the Detention, Treatment and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War against Terrorism. The Order is the basis for the authority to apprehend, detain and place on trial via Military Commissions persons who ...
June 08, 2005
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush
George W. Bush, Donald H. Rumsfeld
Oct. 23, 2002 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4707
White House Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmittal Slip. No additional in formation or comments.
Aug. 14, 2002 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4712
White House Fax Cover Sheet re: SOC for 8 August DC Meeting on Detainee Processing. No attachment. No additional information
June 08, 2005
Letter
Maura Harty | James A. Whitmore | James A. McAtamney | Jeffrey Kupfer | Edward Snead
Maura A. Harty, James A. Whitmore, Edward W. Snead, James A. McAtamney
Oct. 26, 2002 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4713
White House Fax Cover Sheet re: SOC for 18 October PC Meeting on Detainees. No addtional information. No attachments.
June 08, 2005
Letter
Maura Harty | James A. Whitmore | James A. McAtamney | Edward Snead
Maura A. Harty, James A. Whitmore, James A. McAtamney, Edward W. Snead, Paul W. Butler
Nov. 14, 2003 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4714
White House Fax Cover Sheet re: Summary of Conclusions for 11-10-03 PCC on Detainees. No additional information. No attachments.
June 08, 2005
Letter
Brad Wiegmann
Bruce Swartz | Pierre-Richard Prosper | William Howard Taft, IV | Eliana Davidson | Paul Butler
John B. Wiegmann, Paul W. Butler, Bruce Swartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, William Howard Taft, IV, Eliana Davidson