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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Mar. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4081
Email clearing post release
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ronald W. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Eliana Davidson, Anthony Fortune, Bridget A. Brink, Dean H. Pittman, Charles L. Daris
Mar. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4082
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Andre M. Surena
JoAnn J. Dolan
Andre M. Surena, JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris
Mar. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4083
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Andre M. Surena
JoAnn J. Dolan
Andre M. Surena, JoAnn J. Dolan
Mar. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4084
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Andre M. Surena
JoAnn J. Dolan
Andre M. Surena, JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris
Nov. 03, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4085
Emails discuss photos being circulated on the internet and by the media, the photos are said to be inflammatory, they apparently depict U.S. military officers transporting detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Laurel E. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan | Jonathan M. Crock | Susan R. Pittman | David L. Scott
Laurel E. Miller, Susan R. Pittman, JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris
Nov. 08, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4086
Email refers to a press guidance that requires clearance for a briefing. [Document not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan M. Crock
JoAnn J. Dolan | Bridget A. Brink | David L. Scott | Jason H. Greer
Jonathan M. Crock, JoAnn J. Dolan, Bridget A. Brink, Jason H. Greer, Charles L. Daris
Oct. 29, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4087
Email asking for clearance and comments from the Bureau of Counter terrorism.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
David L. Scott | JoAnn J. Dolan
Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris, Eliana Davidson
Sept. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4088
Email thanking JoAnn J. Dolan for help getting clearance on a press guidance for an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Meeting. The Press Guidance is attached. It discusses the U.S. government's and ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Christopher T. Robinson
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris, Odell C. Dehart, Colin L. Powell, Christopher R. Hill, Francis M. Gaffney, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Bridget A. Brink, Christopher Sibilla, Robert Ruhl Simmons, Eliana Davidson
Sept. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4089
This State Department cable is directed to the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland for a Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) meeting on September 9-20, 2002. The talking points are as follows: The U.S. remains committed to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4090
Emails discuss a summary on standards of interrogation of detainees at Guantanamo. [Document not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan
David W. Bowker, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Odell C. Dehart, Charles L. Daris, David A. Kaye, James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Samuel M. Witten