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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Feb. 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3987
Cover sheet, transmittal slips, blank sheet w/ handwriting "To: Don Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Andy Card, FYI"
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jonathan B. Schwartz
Todd F. Buchwald | JoAnn J. Dolan
Jonathan B. Schwartz, Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Andrew Card, Condoleeza Rice, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Colin L. Powell
Mar. 03, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3988
DOS Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmission Report re: Guantanamo Detainees. The recipients are Sec. Def. Rumsfeld, NSA Advisor Rice and Andrew Card.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Colin L. Powell
Donald H. Rumsfeld | Condoleeza Rice | Andrew Card
Apr. 07, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3989
DOS Cover Sheet re: Routing and Transmittal Slip from Adrian Daniel
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Adrian Daniel
Apr. 05, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3990
Fax Cover sheet from Steven Schneebaum, Patton Boggs Law Firm to Secretary of State Colin Powell
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Steven M. Schneebaum
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
May 03, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3991
Letter from Cristophe Girod, International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), to William Howard Taft IV re: Working Paper on ICRC Sixth Visit to the internment facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, between January 26 th and March 8th 2004. Mr. ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Christophe Girod
William Howard Taft, IV
William Howard Taft, IV, Jay W. Hood, P. Michael McKinley, Charles A. Allen, John B. Bellinger, III, Shirin Tahir-Kheli, Benjamin R. Mixon
May 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3992
DOS Memo re: Talking Points on the Iraqi government taking over Abu Ghraib prison and Iraqi Governance in general post the June 30, 2004 turn-over to the Iraqis. The memo states "The Iraqi criminal justice system, including a number of courts, ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
George W. Bush, L. Paul Bremer, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt
May 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3993
DOS interagency delivery checklist for the appropriate handling and delivery of attached documents re: Summary of Conclusions for Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees 5/12/04
May 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3994
This State Department memo gives the State Dept.'s official position on the question of detainees/ Geneva Conventions: the Geneva Conventions apply to the conflict w/ Al Qaeda but not with the Taliban; Neither Al-Qaeda nor Taliban detainees have ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Alberto R. Gonzales, Colin L. Powell, William Howard Taft, IV
Aug. 12, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 3995
Cover letter from Craig Mokhiber, Officer-in-Charge, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to U.S. Amb. to the U.N. John Danforth enclosing a letter from Prof. Cherif Bassiouni, Independent Expert for Human Rights in Afghanistan. ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Craig Mokhiber
John Danforth
John Claggett Danforth
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3996
Letter from Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador, to Professor Bassiouni responding to a request from Prof. Bassiouni to Amb. Danforth relating to travel to Afghanistan.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Anne Patterson
Anne Woods Patterson, John Claggett Danforth