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 18, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4735
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Jennifer Ching of Gibbons, Del Rio, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Partially redacted. The letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some ...
May 18, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Jennifer Ching
Margaret P. Grafeld
Jan. 20, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4736
Letter from attorney Dennis Edney, attorney for Omar Ahmed Khadr, a detainee held at Camp X-Ray, Guantanamo. The letter is a request for Mr. Graham to take any and all available steps to assert and protect Omar's basic human rights as a Canadian ...
June 08, 2005
Letter
Dennis Edney
Bill Graham
George W. Bush
Omar Ahmed Khadr
Mar. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4733
This State Department email from Keith Loken forwards several attachements concerning the "Iraq Strategic Transition Plan Matrix" to other State Department officials. Attachements not included.
May 09, 2005
Email
Keith N. Loken
Ted A. Borek | Ronald Bettauer | Mark Clodfelter | Himamauli Das | Michael Dennis | Joshua L. Dorosin
Ronald J. Bettauer, Himamauli Das, Michael Dennis Rogers, Joshua L. Dorosin, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Corin R. Stone, David S. Newman , James H. Thessin
May 13, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4734
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.
May 13, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
May 09, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4730
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.
May 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
May 09, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4731
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.
May 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
May 09, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4732
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.
May 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
May 18, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4728
Email from Alexander Karagiannis to State Department officials forwarding a letter from the Guantanamo detainees. Mr. Karagiannis' comments are "Please share with legal comunity. NSC has said it has not yet seen the letter from its mail system. ...
May 09, 2005
Email
Alexander Karagiannis
Ronald W. Miller | JoAnn J. Dolan | Evan T. Bloom
Alexander Karagiannis, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Evan T. Bloom, John-Paul Evans
May 13, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4729
This letter is from Shafiq Rasul and Asif Iqbal, two former Guantanamo detainees. The letter is on the letterhead of the Centre for Constitutional Rights and states that
May 09, 2005
Letter
Shafiq Rasul | Asif Iqbal
George W. Bush
George W. Bush, David McWilliams, Geoffrey D. Miller
Shafiq Rasul, Asif Iqbal
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Sleep deprivation, Environmental manipulation, Light or sound, Hooding/Goggling, Other Humiliation, Sexual
Jan. 31, 2002 | WH | NSA | ACLU-RDI 4725
Routing and tranmittal cover sheets from December 2001 though February 2002 re: Detainee Detention Flow Charts. No attachements
June 08, 2005
Letter
John B. Bellinger, III, Daniel Dell'Orto, Eliana Davidson, Bruce Swartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Evan T. Bloom, William Howard Taft, IV