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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Dec. 03, 2001 | ACLU-RDI 3603
Letter from John Walker Lindh's attorney, James J. Brosnahan, requesting information on the location of his client, detained enemy combatant, John Walker Lindh. Mr. Brosnahan states in his letter that he needs the appropriate government official ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell, John D. Ashcroft, Donald H. Rumsfeld, George J. Tenet, Robert M. McNamara, Jr.
John Walker Lindh
May 07, 2004 | Legislative | ACLU-RDI 2736
Letter seeking response regarding the contradiction between testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee and media reports regarding the investigation of abuses by contractors at Abu Ghraib.
Oct. 15, 2004
Letter
Patrick Leahy
John D. Ashcroft
Patrick Leahy, John D. Ashcroft, William E. Moschella
Manadel Al-Jamadi
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6172
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Larry Thompson, regarding his knowledge of concerns about overseas detainee treatment, his advocacy for civilian control of Iraqi prisons, and discussions about the status ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Larry Thompson, John D. Ashcroft, Richard Lee Armitage, Paul Wolfowitz, Pasquale D'Amuro, Michael Chertoff, David E. Nahmias, Alice Fisher, Bruce Swartz, Robert S. Mueller
John Walker Lindh, Jose Padilla
Feb. 24, 2009 | DOJ-OIG | ACLU-RDI 6138
The document includes notes from interviews conducted with FBI personnel Pat D'Amuro, regarding his knowledge about the document exploitation group deployed to Afghanistan as well as the use of legally questionable interrogation techniques and ...
Interview (Summaries/Notes)
Pasquale D'Amuro, Robert S. Mueller, Michael Chertoff, Alice Fisher, John D. Ashcroft, George Tenet, Larry Thompson, Michael E. Dunlavey , Marion E. Bowman, Larry A. Mefford, Bruce J. Gebhardt, Andrew Arena, Valerie E. Caproni, Dale L. Watson
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah