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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Feb. 25, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4649
DOS Congressional Correspondence Tasker re: Request for Image of Document
Dec. 02, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Paul V. Kelly
Paul V. Kelly
Jan. 23, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3677
Congressional Correspondence Tasker Form from a member of Congress to Paul V. Kelly Asst. Sec. for Legislative Affairs at the State Department requesting an image of a document (not stated).
Oct. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Paul V. Kelly
Paul V. Kelly
Nov. 29, 2002 | CIA | ACLU-RDI 5033
Background paper on redacted subject sent by Stanley M. Moskowitz, Director of Congressional Affairs at the CIA. Cover letters identify recipients of paper as congressional staffers Michael W. Sheehy, Tim Sample, Al Cumming, and Bill Duhnke, and ...
Mar. 15, 2013
Non-legal Memo, Letter
Stanley M. Moskowitz
Bill Dunkhe | Jerry Lewis | Ted Stevens | Michael W. Sheehy | Tim Sample | Al Cumming | Daniel K. Inouye
Stanley M. Moskowitz, Michael W. Sheehy, Tim Sample, Al Cumming, Bill Duhnke, Jerry Lewis, Daniel K. Inouye, Ted Stevens
Executive | ACLU-RDI 2454
Discussion of Geneva Convention. Illustrates points where Iraq has violated the Convention.
DOS | ACLU-RDI 3668
This letter is from Paula J. Dobriansky, State Department Under Secretary for Global Affairs to Sen. Bingaman (D-NM) responding to the Senator’s recent letter raising concerns over an article in the Washington Post concerning allegations of ...
Dec. 02, 2004
Letter
Paula Dobriansky
Jeff Bingaman | Charles E. Grassley
Paula J. Dobriansky, Jesse Francis Bingaman, Jr., Charles E. Grassley
Legislative | ACLU-RDI 2027
Questions to Hon. Les Brownlee, Acting Secretary of the Army and Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, Chief of Staff of the Army from Senators Carl Levin and Bill Nelson. Questions focus on detainees' right to communicate with the International Committee ...
Oversight Report
Carl Levin, Romie Leslie Brownlee, Peter Schoomaker, Paul Mikolashek, Bill Nelson