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 09, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3458
Interview of detainee at Guantanamo Bay. The interview on 5/8/03 and was conducted at 1530 and was completed at 1830. The second interview on 5/9/03 was conducted at 0400 and concluded at 0645. These two interviews are linked together, with the ...
May 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3740
State Department fax to Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn Dolan and Ed Cummings forwarding letters from International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) President Jakob Kellenberger to Sec. of State Powell, Condoleeza Rice and Douglas Feith thanking them ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Carrie Santos
Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan | Ed Cummings
Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Douglas J. Feith, JoAnn J. Dolan
May 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4447
State Department Cable Subject: May 9 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo – No additional information or context.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
May 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4448
State Department Cable Subject: May 9 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo – No additional information or context.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Richard A. Boucher
May 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4455
This State Department cable provides talking points concerning informing foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan, and policy guidance for ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Pierre-Richard Prosper
Pierre-Richard Prosper
May 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4456
This State Department cable provides talking points concerning informing foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan, and policy guidance for ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Pierre-Richard Prosper
May 10, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1276
Medical record of an unknown person Dx: Right Nephrectomy; Iteal Conduit
May 11, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3646
DOS Memo from Arthur E. Dewey to Sec. Powell requesting an meeting with ICRC President, Jakob Kellenberger on either May 27 or 28. The purpose of the meeting is to exchange views on key humanitarian issues relating to detainees in Iraq.
Nov. 23, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Richard L. Greene
Colin L. Powell
Daniel B. Smith, Richard L. Greene, Arthur E. Dewey , Frank E. Schmelzer , Condoleeza Rice, Paula J. Dobriansky, William Howard Taft, IV, Donald H. Rumsfeld, P. Michael McKinley, Jonathan S. Carpenter, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Colin L. Powell
May 12, 2003 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 2979
FBI Memo re: Inexorable request country clearance concurrence for FBI personnel traveling to Afghanistan from 22 May through 28 May 2003. In response to a request from the US Department of State (DOS), the FBI will conduct an advance of the ...
May 13, 2003 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 1057
63 year-old male detainee diagnosed with traumatic osteoarthritis of right elbow, Constipation and Pitting Edema. This document is related to ACLU RDI 77. He was part of fourty-four Iraqi detainees who were allegedly abused by U.S. soldiers while ...
Apr. 18, 2005
Medical (Physical (non-death))
General, Physical assault