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. 31, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4227
State Department cable from the Paris Mission re: French concern over the detainees in Guantanamo and the treatment of Guantanamo detainees generally. Much of the cable is redacted, however, some important points from the cable are: 1) it is ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Mar. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4223
State Department cable stating that describing how information on U.S. military commissions will be applied to the detainees at Guantanamo was being sent to Swiss Foreign Minister Poldir Sven-Olof. Heavily redacted.
Jan. 29, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4224
State Department cable concerning the Dutch government's view that Guantanamo detainees should be treated according to Geneva conventions and international law. Some comment re: public/academics seeking more information re: policy, but not to ...
Mar. 06, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4221
State Department cable from Washington to Mission in Kabul concerning upcoming meetings in Afghanistan on the development of the Afghan army and central bank.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Mar. 24, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4222
State Department cable synopsizing a meeting between Sec. Powell and Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs Joseph Diess concerning the geneval Conventions application to the Guantanamo detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Jan. 22, 2003 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 4218
This State department fax is a forwarding of a letter Sen. Kerry received from a constituent containing allegations of mistreatment of Guantanamo detainees. Parts of document unreadable.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
John Kerry
Paul V. Kelly
John Forbes Kerry, Paul V. Kelly
Jan. 17, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4219
State Department cable to Washington recounting discussions with the Swiss government over concerns of not classifying Al-Qaeda and Taliban detainees in Guantanamo according to Geneva Conventions. It is clearly stated that the Swiss government ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Jan. 17, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4220
State Department cable describing discussion in the UK Parliament concerning the treatment and continued detention of UK citizens held at Guantanamo. PM Tony Blair was questioned by opposition members about the UK's access to British citizens and ...
May 29, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4216
State Department cable distributes transcript from the May 29, 2002 press conference where a variety of subjects were addressed. Among the issued raised were: i) Deputy Sec. Armitage meets with Swedish Defense Minister Bjorn Von Sydow; ii) ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Richard Lee Armitage, Colin L. Powell
Dec. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4217
State Department cable with letter from Sec. Powell to the Chairman of Working Group on Detention addressing concerns over the conditions of detainees confinement and the legal theory on which confinement based in.
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell