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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July 25, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4498
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Aug. 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
July 25, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4499
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
Aug. 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
July 22, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4494
State Department memo re: Detainees: Policy and Status. Completely redacted except for "Abu Ghraib: Multiple DoD investigations are currently underway. To date, one of the seven soldiers originally accused of crimes has faced a Special Court ...
Aug. 09, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Cara L. Abercrombie
Richard Schlicher | Paul R. Sutphin | Rexon Y. Ryu | Jonathan J. Carpenter | Charles W. Dunne | Elizabeth H. Richard | Joshua L. Dorosin
Cara L. Abercrombie, Ronald L. Schlicher , Paul R. Sutphin, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Charles W. Dunne, Elizabeth H. Richard, Joshua L. Dorosin
July 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3968
Email from Henry Bisharat to Betsy Anderson forwarding an article by the Associated Press re: "Swedish Man Is Released From Guantanamo." Mr. Bisharat comments are synopsizing the article and stating that he also heard Foreign Minister Freivalds ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Henry Bisharat
Betsy L. Anderson
Henry Bisharat, Ronald W. Miller, Jonathan M. Crock, Heather A. Conley, Elizabeth H. Richard, JoAnn J. Dolan
June 24, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3612
No relevant text.
June 22, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4495
State Department talking points Amb. Moley to address questions and concerns of the UN Commissioner for Human Rights de Mello.
Aug. 09, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Kevin Edward Moley
Kevin Edward Moley
June 18, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3589
This State Department cable provides talking points for US mission & Embassy officials to inform foreign governments about the transfer of their citizens/nationals to Guantanamo after they were picked-up on the battle field of Afghanistan. It ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4664
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4670
Letter from Margaret P. Grafeld, DOS to Amrit Singh, ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request. Letter states that the document production requested is being complied with in some parts and denied or withheld in part.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
June 08, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4673
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.
June 08, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld