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 21, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4239
State Department cable concerning a meeting with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) regarding the Global War on Terror. The cable states there was an informal meeting with ICRC officials to discuss military commissions and the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Edward R. Cummings, Steven A. Solomon, David W. Bowker, James Burger , Waldo W. Brooks , William Lietzau
Apr. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4213
State Department cable to Geneva Mission to deliver a letter to Theo van Boven, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, assuring him that "the [Guantanamo] detainees are not being subjected to mental or physical abuse," detailing nature of ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, David W. Bowker, William Howard Taft, IV, Edward R. Cummings, Kevin Edward Moley
Dec. 19, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4197
Emails discuss the death of two detainees at the Bagram Detention Facility in Iraq. The first detainee died of a pulmonary embolism on December 3, 2002, the second died on December 10, 2002 of a heart attack.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Steven A. Solomon
Kevin Edward Moley | James B. Foley | Michael T. Peay | Jeffrey DeLaurentis | Piper A. Campbell | Joel Danies | Richard Aker
Dan Hetlage, Steven A. Solomon, Kevin Edward Moley, James B. Foley, Michael T. Peay, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, Joel D. Danies, Richard Aker, William Howard Taft, IV, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Andre M. Surena, Gilda M. Brancato, Edward R. Cummings, Steven Boltz, Henry A. Waxman, Ronald W. Miller, Eliana Davidson, Ted Wadsworth, Mustafa Popal, Stephanie A. Barna, Jeffrey Casler, Barbara Burfeind, Charles A. Allen, Charles L. Daris
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
Feb. 06, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4182
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Steven A. Solomon
Marianne J. Hata | Edward R. Cummings
Charles L. Daris, Steven A. Solomon, Marianne J. Hata , Edward R. Cummings
Oct. 21, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4179
Email provides a brief report of the October 20, 2003 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing on detainees at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
William Howard Taft, IV | Samuel M. Witten | James H. Thessin | Edward R. Cummings | JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Thomas A. Johnson | Peter M. McKiinley | Elizabeth H. Richard | Margaret J. Pollack | Carrie Santos | Lorne W. Craner
Harry R. Melone, Robert K. Harris, William Howard Taft, IV, Samuel M. Witten, James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Thomas A. Johnson, Lorne Craner, Michael G. Kozak, Carol T. Santos, Margaret J. Pollack, Lynn M. Sicade, Christopher N. Camponovo, Harry R. Melone
May 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4174
Emails refer to a document that apparently discusses Iraq prison sovereignty.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan B. Schwartz
James H. Thessin
Jonathan B. Schwartz, James H. Thessin, Ted A. Borek, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, Michael J. Dennis, Rhonda H. Shore, Brook E. Milton, Katherine L. Starr, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Charles W. Dunne, Hillary Mann, Jarrett Basedow, Newell Highsmith, Peter F. Mulrean , Peggy Hoyle, Damon A. Terrill, Christina A. Sanford , Harry R. Melone
May 07, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4176
Emails discuss talking points for use by the U.S. expert on the Committee Against Torture, discussing what the U.S. will say in response to prisoner abuses in Iraq. Talking points included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
William Howard Taft, IV | James H. Thessin | Samuel M. Witten
Robert K. Harris, William Howard Taft, IV, James H. Thessin, Samuel M. Witten, Katherine M. Gorove, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Elizabeth H. Richard, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Aaron W. Jost, Mark P. Lagon, Elizabeth L. Riley, Anne R. Sorensen, Donald H. Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Charles A. Allen, Patrick Rowan
Sept. 01, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4168
The original email includes a Reuters news article entitled: "Pentagon Opposes Independent Prison Abuse Probe." The article reports that the Pentagon opposed calls from human rights groups for an independent investigation of detainee abuse.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Edward R. Cummings | Samuel M. Witten
Robert K. Harris, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Samuel M. Witten, Thomas Malionek, Lois L. Allder, John I. Blanck, Jr., Daphne W. Cook, Robert E. Dalton, Michael J. Dennis, Avril Haines, Rebecca M. Ingber, Michael T. Peay, Monica J. Tillery, Harry R. Melone
July 26, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4165
Every email except for the original email is redacted. The original email appears to be talking points regarding the grant of 'protective person' status to "MEK."
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Aaron W. Jost
Rhonda Shore | Paul R. Sutphin | Joseph A. Ereli
Rhonda H. Shore, Edgar J. Vasquez, Ted A. Borek, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, David S. Newman , Richard G. Olson, Aaron W. Jost, Joseph A. Ereli, Paul R. Sutphin, Julie M. Reside, Ronald L. Schlicher , Elizabeth L. Dibble, David M. Satterfield, David J. Greene , Harry R. Melone