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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Apr. 28, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3960
Email from Jonathan Crock to JoAnn Dolan re "Saudi cable" sent to DOD. Doc not listed in DOS log.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan M. Crock
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Eliana Davidson, Charles A. Allen, Jonathan M. Crock
Apr. 26, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 3961
American Bar Association Resolution re: Independent Human Rights Monitors for all Non-U.S. Detainees Held in U. S. Custody. The resolution recommends that the U.S. ensure access by the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN ...
Apr. 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3945
This letter is a response to allegations by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, that the U.S. has detained individuals without bringing charges, deprived them of procedural protections, and failed to dislcose ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jeffrey DeLaurentis
Jeffrey DeLaurentis
Apr. 17, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3884
Request to Col. James Whitmore-DOD for permission for team to visit Guantanamo detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Carol A. Rodley
James A. Whitmore
James A. Whitmore
Apr. 01, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3620
This DOS Cable discusses a visit to a detention facility in Afghanistan. It explains that there was a previous issue at the facility of overcrowding and lack of resources, but that the current climate is better. Also, the cable notes that the ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Robert P. Finn, Colin L. Powell, Laura E. Kennedy , Franklin Pierce Huddle, Jr., Ryan C. Crocker, John Edward Herbst, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad
Isolation
Apr. 28, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3571
State Department Inter-Agency document Cover letter, no attachment; no content.
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice
Apr. 16, 2003 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 3544

A memo from Secretary Rumsfeld approving a set of interrogation techniques, including some that it admits may be "inconsistent with" provisions of the Geneva Conventions.  The techniques include "Pride and Ego Down," ...

June 01, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Donald H. Rumsfeld
James T. Hill
Donald H. Rumsfeld, James T. Hill, Richard B. Myers
Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation
Apr. 14, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3479
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee accused Pakistani Police with giving him electric shocks and U.S. troops of beating him. He said he was yelled at by interrogators in Kandahar and then admitted to lying to them ...
May 18, 2005
Non-legal Memo, Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Use of electricity
Apr. 28, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3453
This is a heavily redacted summary notes from an interviewed a detainee conducted at Camp Delta, Guantanamo. The detainee is not named, but he asks when will he will be released, he also stated that he was not abused or tortured, but expressed ...
Apr. 23, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3452
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo. The detainee stated he was "fine" when asked about his health, but appeared to be physically tired and complained of being mentally exhausted. The interviewer offered the detainee fresh fruit and water and ...
May 18, 2005
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Isolation