The Torture Archive

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Archive FOIA Cable Shows Guantanamo Prosecutors Misleading Defense

Washington, D.C., November 11, 2019 – A military judge presiding over the Guantanamo trial of alleged USS Cole bomber Abd al Rahim al-Nashiri cited a cable released to the…

Nov 11, 2019

Previous Postings

Gina Haspel CIA Torture Cables' Dates and Times Declassified

Oct 18, 2018

Gina Haspel CIA Torture Cables Declassified

Aug 10, 2018

The CIA Black Sites Program and the Gina Haspel Nomination

May 9, 2018

National Security Archive Sues CIA for Gina Haspel Torture Cables

Apr 27, 2018

Gina Haspel’s CIA Torture File

Apr 26, 2018

Why it’s “bizarre and disgraceful” that NARA won’t call the torture report a federal record.

Feb 29, 2016

The Archivist of the US Should Call the Torture Report What It Is: A Federal Record

Feb 18, 2016

Torture Report Finally Released

Dec 9, 2014

Prisoner Abuse: Patterns From the Past

Feb 25, 2014

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About this Project

The Torture Archive, an online repository of more than 16,000 documents, chronicles United States government policy on the detention and interrogation of individuals in the “global war on terror” since September 11, 2001. The Torture Archive features documents from a wide range of sources, including records disclosed through the American Civil Liberties Union’s successful lawsuits against the Department of Defense and other federal agencies; documents from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) and Administrative Review Boards (ARB); FOIA requests by the Center for Constitutional Rights and the National Security Archive; and court documents from Writs of Habeas Corpus Petitions filed by Guantanamo detainees in U.S. district courts.

Torturing Democracy:
The Documentary

The award-winning documentary film chronicles the evolution of U.S. policy on detention and interrogation post-9/11. Torturing Democracy won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and was called the "definitive broadcast account of a deeply troubling chapter in recent American history."

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