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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State Department cable with talking points to address concerns of foreign governments about their citizens being held at Guantanamo. The cable states; 1) These individuals pose a threat to the United States and international peace and security ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable with talking points to address concerns of foreign governments about their citizens being held at Guantanamo. The cable states; 1) These individuals pose a threat to the United States and international peace and security ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Colin L. Powell
State department Memo from Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper to Secretary Powell with requesting approval on reply to Edward Davey Member of the UK House of Commons re: his concerns about detainees. Approval was given.
Jan. 12, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Colin L. Powell
Pierre-Richard Prosper, Colin L. Powell
State Department cable to the London Mission with an attached letter from Sec. Powell to be delivered to Edward Davey Member of the UK House of Commons, briefly explaining U.S. policy regarding access to detainees.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Emails between JoAnn Dolan and David Bowker and others concerning a Swedish press report concerning Swedish detainees at Guantanamo. The press report includes an interview with Swedish Foreign Minister Lindh. The comments of the U.S. officials is ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
David W. Bowker
JoAnn J. Dolan, Henry Bisharat, Yvette M. Wong, Colin L. Powell, Paul Wolfowitz
John Walker Lindh
Email from David Bowker to Bill Deere with an attachment entitled "H paper for Powell on Detainee…"
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
David W. Bowker
Bill H. Deere
Colin L. Powell, David W. Bowker
State Department cable from Brussels Mission to Washington summarizing the results of the European Council meeting. The European Parliament adopted non-binding resolution lauding the capture of Saddam Hussein and called for a return of ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable with a letter from Sec. Powell's response to inquiry regarding the welfare of two men detaineed at Guantanamo Bay. The points Sec. Powell makes concerning the proposed trial of any accused held at Guantanamo are: there is a ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable to Washington summarizing a November, 2003 meeting between six (6) members of Congress and ten (10) members of the European Parliament. Topics included Iraq, the War on Terror, and Guantanamo.
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable summarizes discussion at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe meeting on Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM) dedicated to rule-of-law issues. The US took "substantial criticism" for its ...
Dec. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell