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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June 14, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4091

Email refers to an attached memo that has been revised, the memo appears to be related to detainee transfers. Memo not included.

Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Brent E. Blaschke
JoAnn J. Dolan | David W. Bowker | Kara L. Bue | Brian H. Leventhal | David L. Scott
Brent E. Blaschke , JoAnn J. Dolan, David W. Bowker, David L. Scott, Brian H. Leventhal, Kara L. Bue, Charles L. Daris
Apr. 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4092
Email refers to a cable that apparently concerns the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David A. Kaye
Steven A. Solomon | Linda Thomas-Greenfield | Edward R. Cummings | David W. Bowker | JoAnn J. Dolan | James B. Foley
David A. Kaye, Steven A. Solomon, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Edward R. Cummings, David W. Bowker, JoAnn J. Dolan, James B. Foley, Charles L. Daris
Mar. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4093
Email refers to a draft press guidance that appears to concern a Washington Post article discussing the CIA's "assistance in renditions." The email seeks clearance on the press guidance. [Document not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Peter W. Mason
Michael J. Mattler | Linda Jacobson
Peter W. Mason, Michael J. Mattler, Linda Jacobson, Betty A. Bernstein-Zabza, Odell C. Dehart, Mark F. Wong, David L. Scott, Joseph W. Reap, James G. Hergen , Felix Hernandez, Anne S. Casper
May 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4094
Email includes a cable with the following subject: International Committee of the Red Cross delivers note verbale on 'rights and duties' of the U.S. as occupying power. Email is completely redacted.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Theresa K. Mitchell | JoAnn J. Dolan
David Pierce, JoAnn J. Dolan, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Edward R. Cummings, Michael T. Peay, William Howard Taft, IV, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Oct. 31, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4095
Email refers to four cables, one apparently discusses detainee release and transfers. [Documents are not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Ronald W. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan
Charles L. Daris, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Odell C. Dehart
Dec. 28, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4096
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.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter, Judicial
Margaret P. Grafeld
Margaret P. Grafeld
Nov. 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4097
Email refers to a cable that needs clearance. [Document is not attached].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
John F. Goldener
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Theodore Sellin
Feb. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4098
Press release contains talking points on the transfer of seven Russian nationals from Guantanamo bay detention to the Russian government.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Theodore Sellin
Mar. 01, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4099
Press release from the Office of the Spokesman, Richard Boucher, announcing the transfer of Russian nationals from U.S. military control at Guantanamo Bay to the control of the Russian Government in order to face criminal charges.
Dec. 30, 2004
Interview (Statement)
Richard Boucher
Richard A. Boucher, Theodore Sellin
Aug. 26, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4100
Emails between JoAnn Davidson to Eliana Davidson with attachment on a "Transfer Agreement". Attachement not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Eliana Davidson
JoAnn J. Dolan, Eliana Davidson