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 07, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3967
Email from Steve Solomon to JoAnn Dolan forwarding an email from Joseph Casey to Lynn Cassel with the subject "Wall Street Journal to Publish International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) February Report." The comments from Steve Solomon to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Steve A. Solomon
JoAnn J. Dolan
Steven A. Solomon, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Joseph P. Cassidy, Lynn L. Cassel, Kevin Edward Moley, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, Magda S. Siekert, Michael T. Peay
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
Sept. 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3969
Emails between JoAnn Dolan Cynthis Francisco, Edward Betancourt and others re: Hamdi Cable. The email has an attachment with the comment "All Agree?" The attached document in entitled "Cable - Clarification on Hamdi."
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ronald W. Miller | Rexon Y. Ryu | Cynthia Stewart Francisco | Edward Betancourt | Catherine W. Brown | David Whiddon | Amal Patel
JoAnn J. Dolan
Yaser Esam Hamdi
Dec. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3970
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. 30, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
May 27, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3971
This memo is background information on International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) President Kellenberger in preparation of a meeting with Sec. of State Powell.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Arthur E. Dewey
Colin L. Powell, Arthur E. Dewey
July 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3972
DOS Fax from Nichole Sobotha to Frank Geoffrey, JoAnn Dolan and Joshua L. Dorosin re: Letter from Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). ODIHR request for information regarding cases to be tried by the US in front of the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Nichole Sobotka
JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Frank Gaffney
Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Francis M. Gaffney
Oct. 20, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3973

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Hearing on Guantanamo Detainees re: Signature Page of Submission cover sheet, signed by Steven Watt (CCR), Viviana Krsticevic (CIJL), and Roxanna Altholz, (CIJL).

Oct. 20, 2003 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3974
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights litigation requesting that the Commission take measures to have the legal status of detainees held at Guantanamo be determined by a competent court, and to protect against the torture of detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Judicial (Pleading)
Physical assault, Assault/death, Stress positions, Isolation, Temperature, Threat, Environmental manipulation
Dec. 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3975
DOS Cover Sheet re: Summary of Conclusions for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees 12/4/03
Dec. 11, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3976
Memo summarizing request from the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) to meet and discuss the treatment of detainees and other humanitarian concerns. Recommends meeting in mid-January.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Arthur E. Dewey
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell, Arthur E. Dewey , Condoleeza Rice, Paula J. Dobriansky, William Howard Taft, IV, Paul Wolfowitz