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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Aug. 09, 2005 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 4485
Letter from David N. Kelley, U.S. Attorney, DOJ to Lawrence S. Lustberg, Megan Lewis, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C., attorneys for the ACLU re: the ACLU's FOIA Request (ACLU, et al., v. Department of Defense, et al., No. ...
Aug. 09, 2005
Letter, Judicial
David N. Kelley | Sean H. Lane | Peter M. Skinner
Lawrence S. Lustberg | Megan Lewis
David N. Kelley, Sean H. Lane, Peter M. Skinner
July 25, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4486
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
Jan. 12, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4482
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.
Jan. 12, 2005
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Oct. 31, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4483
State Department memo on key issues covering several areas of State Department concern.
Jan. 14, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4480
Email requesting input on an attached paper. the comments from Ms. Holman are "Joann: How is the BM on PC Meeting on Detainees coming. This is just remember that it is due today at 3. Thanks, Beverly Holman."
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Beverly S. Holman
JoAnn J. Dolan
Beverly S. Holman, JoAnn J. Dolan
May 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4481
Email asks for a response to request for guidance regarding Department response to International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) report. Contents completely redacted.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Robert P. Waller
Rexon Y. Ryu | Philo L. Dibble | Joshua L. Dorosin
Rexon Y. Ryu, Philo L. Dibble, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Jonathan S. Carpenter, James A. Larocco
June 15, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4477
Emails between State Department officials re: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) request to visit Guantanamo.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
John A. Buche
Joshua L. Dorosin
John Allen Buche, Joshua L. Dorosin
June 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4478
Email requests clearance for a Q & A on Detainee Issues. the commeents from Ms. Abercrombie is "All, the attached Q&A is 99% the same as one cleared last week. Please review and clear by 1200 tomorrow. This is for D's briefing to the SASC on ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Cara L. Abercrombie
Rexon Y. Ryu
Cara L. Abercrombie, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, JoAnn J. Dolan, Katherine M. Gorove, Joshua L. Dorosin, Ronald W. Miller
July 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4479
Email from Cara Abercrombie requesting clearance for an issue paper on detainees. No attachment included.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Cara L. Abercrombie
Rexon Y. Ryu | Jonathan J. Carpenter | Charles W. Dunne | Joshua L. Dorosin
Cara L. Abercrombie, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Joshua L. Dorosin
Jan. 29, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4475
State Department emails between JoAnn Dolan, James H. Thessin, Todd Buchwald, Waldo Brooks and Others re: Secretary's Meeting with International Red Cross (ICRC) President Kellenberger.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
James H. Thessin | Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | Waldo W. Brooks
JoAnn J. Dolan, James H. Thessin, Joshua L. Dorosin, Waldo W. Brooks , Edward R. Cummings