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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Jan. 12, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4445
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Jan. 12, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Mar. 28, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4446
State Department Cable Subject: March 21 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo – No additional information or context.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
May 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4447
State Department Cable Subject: May 9 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo – No additional information or context.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
Dec. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4442
Checklist of Key Issues for Meeting with Swedish State Secretary Lars Danielsson. Topics were Turkey/EU, North Korea, Iraq/WMD, Partnership for Peace/NATO enlargement, Guantanamo Swede, and Global War on Terror. Contents redacted.
DOS | ACLU-RDI 4443
State Department memo with takling points on issues of the day entitled "Background on Key Issues". Content redacted. Mentions comments by A Lindh criticizing detention policies
Dec. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4444
Email from Michael Corbin to JoAnn Dolan forwarding a cable from Ambassador Neumann concerning Bahrain's press front paged and headline on November 24 and the the Prime Minister's raising the Guantanamo detainee issue with "CODEL Issa". The ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Michael H. Corbin
JoAnn J. Dolan
Michael H. Corbin, Ronald E. Neumann, JoAnn J. Dolan
Oct. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4440
Letter from Clifford G. Bond Concerning Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina Detainees Held at Guantanamo.
Jan. 12, 2005
Letter
Clifford G. Bond
Oct. 31, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4441
Email from Henry Bisharat forwarding a press article quoting Swedish Foreign Minister stating that she expected the Swedish detainees at Guantanamo to be released "shortly".
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Henry Bisharat
Ronald W. Miller | JoAnn J. Dolan | Yvette M. Wong
Henry Bisharat, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller
Sept. 04, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4438
Emails between State Department officials concerning Swedish press reports on the detention of Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali at Guantanamo. The email is mostly redacted.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Henry Bisharat | Debra Cagan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Henry Bisharat
Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali
Oct. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4439
This email forwards a letter received from the wives of unknown men. There is no context to the email.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Michael D. Fooks
Ronald W. Miller | JoAnn J. Dolan
Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Michael D. Fooks