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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Feb. 27, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4132
This is a State department Talking points and press guidance memo concerning the legal basis for the U.S. holding detainees at Guantanamo. The talking points highlight that the detainees are "enemy Combatants" and not Prisoners of War (POWs) and ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Evan T. Bloom, William Howard Taft, IV, James H. Thessin, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Edward R. Cummings, David W. Bowker, Mark F. Wong, John B. Bellinger, III, Eliana Davidson, Daniel P. Collins
Nov. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4133
Email from Ed Cummings to Joshua Dorosin asking for comments on attached suggested talking points, with the comment "First draft. What do you think?" Attachment not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Edward R. Cummings
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin
Oct. 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4134
Email from Gilda M. Brancato to Ed Cummings forwarding Reuters artcile re: French detainees at Guantanamo complaining of psychological torture. No comments on email.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Gilda M. Brancado
Edward R. Cummings
Monica J. Tillery, Edward R. Cummings, Gilda M. Brancato, John D. Ashcroft
Mourad Benchellali, Khaled Ben Mustafa, Nizar Sassi, Ridouane Khalid, Ahmad Abd al Rahman Ahmad
Jan. 28, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4135
State Department talking points and press guidance on discussing the legal status of the Guantanamo detainees. The memo states that the legal status currently being reviewed and that the detainees are being treated humanely.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
David A. Kaye, James H. Thessin, Evan T. Bloom
Aug. 27, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4136
State Department email from David W. Bowker to JoAnn Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Andre M. Surena and Ronald W. Miller forwarding several emails concerning the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) visiting the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
JoAnn J. Dolan | Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Andre M. Surena | Ronald W. Miller
Monica J. Tillery, David W. Bowker, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Andre M. Surena, Ronald W. Miller, Laurel E. Miller, Brian H. Leventhal, Molly C. Phee
| ACLU-RDI 4137
This undated news article is a partial news article with no title or identification as to its publication or author.
Dec. 30, 2004
Other
George W. Bush
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
Dec. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4140
State Department email from JoAnn Dolan to Jonathan B. Schwartz and Samuel M. Witten with a draft attachment and a comment "Attached is a draft IM on the court cases yesterday"
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Jonathan B. Schwartz | Samuel M. Witten
Monica J. Tillery, JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Samuel M. Witten, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Waldo W. Brooks , Robert E. Dalton
Jan. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4141
Emails between JoAnn Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald and Others re Urgent Clearance: Checklist for ICRC Kellenberger Meeting with S. Attachments not included, minor comments concerning the attachements.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Carol T. Santos, Ronald W. Miller, Karen L. Hecker, James A. McAtamney, James Burger , Charles A. Allen, John B. Wiegmann, Thomas A. Johnson, Nina E Schou, Neil S. Kromash