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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Apr. 15, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4142
DOS Memo re: Talking Points on Draft Resolution on the Question of Arbitrary Detentions in the Area of the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo. Commission on Human Rights draft resolution requesting clarification on the living conditions and status of ...
July 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4143
Email from Joshua Dorosin to Joshua Lipshutz re: Clearance/comments needed on red border response letter. With the comment "Josh - Can you clear this for UPM? Please call JoAnn at home to review with her and then send any comments directly back ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Joshua L. Dorosin
Joshua S. Lipshultz
Monica J. Tillery, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Robin H. Sakoda, Cara L. Abercrombie, Colin L. Powell
July 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4144
Email from Jonathan Carpenter to Joshua Lipshutz re: Clearance/comments needed on red border response letter. With the comment "couple of suggestions. thanks. jc." The email is forwarding an email from Andrew Sagor with an attachment entitled ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan J. Carpenter
Andrew E. Sagor | Joshua L. Dorosin | Rexon Y. Ryu
Jonathan S. Carpenter, Joshua L. Dorosin, Rexon Y. Ryu, Todd F. Buchwald, Robin H. Sakoda, Cara L. Abercrombie
Aug. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4145
Email from Beverly Holman to JoAnn Dolan re: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Letters on Detainees - (Confidential) 2004 19914-ICRC Letters on Detainees- Due in S/ES by 3:00 pm, 8/25. This email forwards an email with ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Beverly S. Holman
JoAnn J. Dolan
Beverly S. Holman, JoAnn J. Dolan, Monica J. Tillery, Saadia Sarkis
Nov. 14, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4146
Email from Ronald W. Miller to Donna Boltz, Leeann Bormand and Eliana Davidson re: Final Fact Sheet for PD Package with the comment "For everyone's review/comment. Simply took DoD cleared PAG and incorporated into fact sheet requested by NSC at ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
Eliana Davidson | Donna Boltz | Leeann Borman
Ronald W. Miller, Eliana Davidson, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan Scharfan
Nov. 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4147
Email from Ronald W. Miller to Joshua L. Dorosin re: Clearance. The comment from Mr. Miller is "Josh, in Joann's absence, can you look at these cables - each have been cleared except for L (to include OSD). Thanks." with three (3) attachments. ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
Joshua L. Dorosin
Ronald W. Miller, Joshua L. Dorosin
Dec. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4148
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
Sept. 12, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4149
Emails between Ronald W. Miller and Joshua L. Dorosin re: Comments on DOD Paper. The email contains an attachment, not included. The comments on the initial email from Joshua Dorosin states "Ron/JoAnn - I'll be pulling comments together today ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, Ronald W. Miller, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings
Sept. 26, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4150
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, Katherine Gorove and Ronald W. Miller re: Public Diplomacy Docs. The comments from Ms. Dolan are "It is probably too late to get it in circulation before the SVTS. Let's get a final ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin | Edward R. Cummings | Katherine M. Gorove | Ronald W. Miller
Monica J. Tillery, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Katherine M. Gorove, Ronald W. Miller
Sept. 30, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4151
Emails between JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Ronald W. Miller and Others re: PD on Detainees-Strategy Paper. The email has an attachment, not included. the comments from Ms. Dolan are "I assume no one has anything further on this one. Ron: ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin | Ronald W. Miller | Edward R. Cummings | Andre M. Surena | Katherine M. Gorove
JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Ronald W. Miller, Edward R. Cummings, Andre M. Surena, Katherine M. Gorove, Sharon E. Ahmad, Aranaga Carlos