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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Mar. 26, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 928
Minutes of March 24, 2003 Meeting with the International Committee of the Red Cross. Contents redacted.
Mar. 03, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Geoffrey D. Miller, Adolph McQueen
Mar. 26, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 2445
Email from Anne C. Brunson to JoAnn Dolan concering DOD talking points on Enemy Prisoners of War.
June 30, 2006
Email
Anne C. Brunson
JoAnn J. Dolan
Mar. 26, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3978
DOS Memo from William H. Taft to Secretary of State Powell re: Photographing POWs and the Geneva Conventions. Summary redacted. Discussion explores the US position on photographing and/or releasing photographs of POWs.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
William Howard Taft, IV
Colin L. Powell
William Howard Taft, IV, Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Ronald W. Miller, Steven A. Solomon
Mar. 26, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4076
Emails discuss revisions to a document(s). No relevant text. [Document not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Charles L. Daris, Rhonda H. Shore, JoAnn J. Dolan, Gregory W. Sullivan, Edward R. Cummings
Mar. 27, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2981
FBI Memo Counterterrorism to Counterterrorism Tampa (Iraqi task force and SA [name redacted] re: to set lead for the Iraqi Task Force to conduct queries about the significance and/or meaning of a tattoo observed on an Iraqi POW. SA [redacted ...
Mar. 27, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3437
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee was visably sick when interviewed, and remained so through out. Detainee stated that he had no connection to terrorism and knew nothing about the September 11, 2001 attacks other ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Mar. 27, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4075
Emails refer to and briefly discuss a document being reviewed by Nick Rostow for possible wider circulation and clearance.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Waldo W. Brooks
Jonathan B. Schwartz | James H. Thessin | Ronald J. Bettauer | JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | David S. Newman
Nicholas Rostow, Waldo W. Brooks , Jonathan B. Schwartz, James H. Thessin, Ronald J. Bettauer, Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, David P. Stewart, Todd F. Buchwald, David B. Sullivan , D. Stephen Mathias, David S. Newman , Corin R. Stone, Susan R. Benda , Wynne M. Teel , D. Stephen Mathias
Mar. 27, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4191
Memo, among other things, describes the U.S. government's application of the Geneva Convention with respect to the War on Terrorism and differentiates the U.S. government's treatment of detainees from the Iraq's treatment of American detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
JoAnn J. Dolan | Ronald W. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, William Howard Taft, IV, James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Gregory W. Sullivan, Rhonda H. Shore, Charles L. Daris
Mar. 28, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3438
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee advised the interviewing agent that he was in good medical health and had been treated well. He stated that the treatment of the Koran continued to be the reason for his ...
Mar. 28, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4357
State Department cable detailing Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper's meeting with senior Swedish officials, parliamentarians, the press and legal experts concerning the U.S. detention of terror suspects and the label "Illegal Combatant" in order ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Pierre-Richard Prosper