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. 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4344
State Department cable to Washington informing them that a Foreign Minister has made a request for a visitation of one of his nation's citizens being held at Guantanamo. The cable is heavily redacted.
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Jan. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4345
State Department cable concerning Australian Prime Minister Howard's upcoming trip to New York for the World Economic Forum. The cable states that PM Howard has expressed his support for Operation Enduring Freedom and the international effort ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
John Thomas Schieffer
Colin L. Powell
John Thomas Schieffer, Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush
Jan. 23, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4346
State Department cable concerning the Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Staff meeting notes from January 23, 2002. Multiple topics, including detainees. "Public Reaction re detainees is turning very negative." Concerns of various countries ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Paula J. Dobriansky
Jan. 26, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4347
DOS Cable re: Update on Various Issues for the Secretary: Guantanamo; NATO; and Foreign Affairs
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Jan. 31, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4350
State Department cable concerning the world's perception that the US was treating its detainees improperly was undermining the moral high ground upon which the anti-terror coalition stands. The cable also gives some insight to off-record meetings ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell, Daniel Ray Coats
Feb. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4351
State Department cable concerning Secretary of State Powell's Meeting with EU High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana. They discussed, Balkins, the Middle East, Yassar Arafat, the Global Coalition Against ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Richard A. Boucher, William Burns, Charles Ries, Craig A. Kelly
June 10, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4359
State Department cable concerning the June 12 arrival of the Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh to call on the Secretary of State, Colin Powell. The issues to be covered are: The Middle East peace process; transatlantic relations; ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
June 17, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4360
State Department cable giving a summary of meeting between Sec. Powell and Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh. FM Lindh praised the current U.S. efforts in the Middle East and assured Sec. Powell that the Europeans will do what they can to help ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Richard A. Boucher, Henry Bisharat, Craig A. Kelly , Beth Jones
Aug. 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4361
State Department cable to Secretary of State Powell giving advice on upcoming visits of senior U.S. Defense policy and Pol-Mil visitors to Australia in a two-week period in Mid-August 2003 "to convey the importance of our alliance to our ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Nov. 14, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4362
State Department cable relating a request from Latvian Parliamentarians requesting the release of Latvian student from prison in Iraq. The Latvians claim that the gentleman was arrested on suspicion of being a "potential foreign mercenary" and is ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell