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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State Department cable concerning several press reports focusing on the situation in Iraq and Saudi Araiba. International media attention focused on human rights issues, specifically Abu Graib and the killing of civilians in U.S. air strikes and ...
Dec. 20, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell
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.
Dec. 20, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
State Department cable concerning implementation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1483. The cable contains the speech about the resolution.
Dec. 20, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable concerning Ambassador Dan Coats meeting with German Foreign Affairs State Secretary Gunter Pleuger. Mr. Pleuger requested the meeting to discuss the Guantanamo detainees. Mr. Pleuger and later Foreign Minister Fischer ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Daniel Ray Coats
State Department cable concerning UNCHR Robinson's comments that the Guantanamo detainees should be brought before a court or tribunal for adjudication. She said that there has been a curtailment of human rights since the September 11, 2001 ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable concerning a filing in French court by families of two French nationals, seeking declaration of POW status for detainees. The French government argued against the family's actions. The cable indicates that the French judge ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Jonathan B. Schwartz
State Department cable concerning the 2002 International Bar association meeting where the topic of discussion "range from International terrorism, Intellectual property, human rights and civil liberties". It is also mentioned that South African ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
State Department cable announcing the release of four (4) detainees from Guantanamo to their home governments. The cable also states that the U.S. is willing to release detainees to home countries that are willing to treat the former detainees ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Pierre-Richard Prosper
State Department cable draft response to questions submitted by an attorney for a detainee held at Guantanamo. This cable contains talking points to address the status of these citizens being held at Guantanamo. The cable goes on to state; 1) The ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper
State Department cable with talking points concerning an inquiry by the wives and family members requesting to visit their family members detained at Guantanamo. The cable states; 1) The U.S. government cannot address specific questions about ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell