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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Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4128
Email from David Bowker to Joshua Dorosin re: Litigation Involving Detainees
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, David W. Bowker, Joshua L. Dorosin, Beverly S. Holman
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4129
Email from David Bowker to JoAnn Dolan and Joshua Dorosin forwarding and email from Evan Bloom with an attachment entitled 24FJ011. Attachement not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin
David W. Bowker, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Evan T. Bloom, Todd F. Buchwald, D. Stephen Mathias, Ted A. Borek, Linda Jacobson, Andre M. Surena
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4131
State Department email from David W. Bowker to Joshua Dorosin forwarding an email from Evan Bloom on press guidance and talking points on the legal status of the Guantanamo detainees held by the U.S.. Attachment not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, David W. Bowker, Joshua L. Dorosin, Evan T. Bloom, James H. Thessin, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Samuel M. Witten, D. Stephen Mathias, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ted A. Borek, Michael J. Mattler, Carol M. Schwab, Edward R. Cummings, Andre M. Surena, Katherine M. Gorove, Linda Jacobson, Thomas B. Heinemann, Peter W. Mason
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4138
This State Department email is a forwarding of several emails initiated by David A. Kaye with attachments described as: 1) A basic law of armed conflict paper for the interagency; 2) Contingency press guidance on the status of persons captured ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, David W. Bowker, Joshua L. Dorosin, David A. Kaye, Steven A. Solomon, Michael T. Peay, James H. Thessin, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Ronald J. Bettauer, Evan T. Bloom, James Burger , Charles A. Allen, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4139
This State Department email from David Bowker to Joshua Dorosin is the last in a series of emails initiated by JoAnn Dolan to Debbie Daumit with the comment: "Debbie: Hal is up at USUN covering a conference on Terrorism Convention and left a ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, David W. Bowker, Joshua L. Dorosin, David A. Kaye, Samuel M. Witten, Evan T. Bloom, Peter W. Mason, JoAnn J. Dolan
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4672
State Department memorandum providing background on the Prime Minister's agenda and visit with President Bush at Camp David.
May 04, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Elizabeth Jones
Colin L. Powell
George W. Bush
Sept. 04, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4438
Emails between State Department officials concerning Swedish press reports on the detention of Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali at Guantanamo. The email is mostly redacted.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Henry Bisharat | Debra Cagan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Henry Bisharat
Mehdi Mohammad Ghezali
Sept. 05, 2002 | FBI | ACLU-RDI 3398
Interview of a detainee at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay. The detainee stated that prior to being turned over to the U.S. military, he was shot in the right shoulder by the "NA," tortured in various houses (four houses) and ordered to ...
Sept. 06, 2002 | DOA | ACLU-RDI 242
Army Field Manual FM 27-10 listing Treaties Relating to the Conduct of Land Warfare. Field Manual setting forth treaties relating to the conduct of land warfare which have been ratified by the United States.
Sept. 06, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4012
Emails between Joann Dolan Newell Highsmith, Ted Borek and Others re: BM D.Hoon 9.11.02 Inputs due by Friday, September 6, 2002. Redacted message; Request for briefing memo inputs.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ted A. Borek | Todd F. Buchwald | Newell L. Highsmith | Priscilla G. Hernandez
JoAnn J. Dolan, Todd F. Buchwald