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. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4756
Statement by Philip T. Reeker, Deputy Spokesman for the State Department, regarding the transfer of six terror suspects from Bosnia and Herzegovina to U.S.. The statement states "The United States commends and strongly supports the resolute ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
Philip T. Reeker
DOD | ACLU-RDI 4757
DOD Deleted Page Information Sheet
Mar. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4755
DOS Cable regarding a letter from Special Rapporteur on Torture, Theo van Boven, to Ambassador Bremen regarding the detention of four individuals in Basra, Iraq. The letter reports that the detainees are being held incommunicado by the UK ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
L. Paul Bremer, Colin L. Powell, Thomas A. Johnson
Nov. 10, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4754
DOS cover letter for six page document(s) discussing Afghanistan detention of captured persons.
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Maura Harty
Maura A. Harty, Frank E. Schmelzer
Feb. 17, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4751
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: February 9 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
Feb. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4752
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: February 11 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
Feb. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4753
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: February 13 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
| ACLU-RDI 4749
Critical Incident Response Group (CIRG)/Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) Work Books Volume 3 cover sheet.
Feb. 27, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4750
This State Department Cable is entitled "Subject: February 7 Transfer of Detainees to Guantanamo". There is no other discernible information or context.
June 11, 2004 | DOD | ACLU-RDI 4747
Information on lesson titled "Stress Management Within Detainee Operations"