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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June 29, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4690
White House Cover Sheet re: PC Meeting on 1 July 2004
June 03, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4691
White House Cover Sheet re: SOC for 1 Jun PC Meeting on Detainees.
July 07, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 4692
White House Cover Sheet re: Detainees - International Committee of the Red Cross
June 08, 2005
Letter
John Bellinger
William Howard Taft, IV | Patrick Philbin | William J. Haynes, II
John B. Bellinger, III, William J. Haynes, II, William Howard Taft, IV, Patrick Philbin
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4694
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.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
July 11, 2005 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 4695
This Dept. of Justice letter to Lawrence S. Lustberg and Megan Lewis of Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., Re: ACLU, et al., v. Department of Defense, et al., No. 04 Civ. 4151 (AKH) document production. Mr. Kelley's comments ...
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
David N. Kelley | Sean H. Lane | Peter M. Skinner
Lawrence S. Lustberg | Megan Lewis
David N. Kelley, Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4696
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4698
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Mar. 18, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4699
This memo is to address questions and concerns over the status and treatment of Guantanamo detainees. The memo states that: 1) the U.S. does not permit, tolerate or condone torture; 2) Detainees get excellent medical care; 3) the Al-Qaeda ...
June 08, 2005
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, George W. Bush
Mar. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4700
State Department cable stating that the U.S. has come to an agreement to return five (5) Guantanamo detainees back to their home country. The agreement includes assurances from the receiving country that the detainees will receive humane ...
June 08, 2005
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Ronald W. Miller, Pierre-Richard Prosper
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4702
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld