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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Mar. 27, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4075
Emails refer to and briefly discuss a document being reviewed by Nick Rostow for possible wider circulation and clearance.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Waldo W. Brooks
Jonathan B. Schwartz | James H. Thessin | Ronald J. Bettauer | JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | David S. Newman
Nicholas Rostow, Waldo W. Brooks , Jonathan B. Schwartz, James H. Thessin, Ronald J. Bettauer, Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, David P. Stewart, Todd F. Buchwald, David B. Sullivan , D. Stephen Mathias, David S. Newman , Corin R. Stone, Susan R. Benda , Wynne M. Teel , D. Stephen Mathias
June 07, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4070

Emails discuss and include a Wall Street Journal article entitled "Pentagon Report Set Framework for Use of Torture: Security or Legal Factors Could Trump Restrictions, Memo to Rumsfeld Argued." The article discusses a classified ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
Edward R. Cummings | Samuel M. Witten | Tom Malionek | Jonathan B. Schwartz
Donald H. Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, James T. Hill, Condoleeza Rice, Patrick Leahy, William J. Haynes, II, Thomas Malionek, William J. Gehron, Robert K. Harris, Edward R. Cummings, Samuel M. Witten, Michael G. Kozak, James H. Thessin, Jonathan B. Schwartz, William Howard Taft, IV, Robert E. Dalton, Katherine M. Gorove, Lois L. Allder, Daphne W. Cook, Darlyce M. Eley
Threat, Family/others, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious
Dec. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4071
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
July 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4072
Refers to "PCC Briefing Memo" [Document not included]. No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan M. Crock
JoAnn J. Dolan
Jonathan M. Crock, JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris
June 25, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4068
Emails refer to the release of Russian Guantanamo detainees released by Russian Procuracy. A document is attached to the emails. [Document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
William J. Gehron, JoAnn J. Dolan, Katherine M. Gorove, Christopher N. Camponovo, Margaret J. Pollack, Edward R. Cummings, Robert K. Harris, Todd F. Buchwald, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, Michael K. Morrow, Allen S. Greenberg
July 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4069
Emails discuss and include an Associated Press article that includes a BBC interview by Brigadier General Janis L. Karpinski, wherein she states she met a man at Abu Ghraib who told her he was Israeli and that he was conducting interrogations. ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan B. Schwartz
Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Darlyce M. Eley, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Beverly S. Holman, Jennifer L. Viau, Donald H. Rumsfeld, William J. Gehron
June 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4066
Email refers to an attachment, which is a draft guidance on L memos as reported in a Washington Post report. Ms. Dolan's comments are: "Attached for input/clearance is draft guidance on L memos as reported in today's Washington Post report. We ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings | Todd F. Buchwald | James H. Thessin | Katherine M. Gorove | William Howard Taft, IV | Ronald W. Miller | Jonathan M. Crock
Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, James H. Thessin, Katherine M. Gorove, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, Jonathan M. Crock
June 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4067
Emails discuss and include a cable from the U.K. Bar Association Chair and others expressing their opinion on interrogation methods utilized by the U.S. military in Iraq and Guantanamo. The U.K. Bar Association Chair stated that the "extreme ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings | Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | James H. Thessin
Thomas Malionek, William J. Gehron, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, James H. Thessin, Michael J. Dennis
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Forced grooming, Other Humiliation
May 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4064
Emails discuss reports that the International Committee of the Red Cross is encouraging delegations to present a resolution on human rights violations of Iraqi prisoners of war U.S. forces.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David B. Sullivan
Todd F. Buchwald | Waldo W. Brooks | Katherine M. Gorove | Mary Catherine Malin
David B. Sullivan , Catherine Mary Malin, Todd F. Buchwald, Waldo W. Brooks , Katherine M. Gorove, Daniel W. Cento, Earl M. Irving, Joaquin E. Ferrao, Wendy R. Sneff, Leo C. DiBenigno, Darlyce M. Eley
May 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4065
Emails include a New York Times article entitled "U.S. Disputed Protected Status of Iraq Inmates." The article discusses the American government's adamant position that many detainees in Iraq are not entitled to the full protections of the Geneva ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
Edward R. Cummings
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Robert K. Harris, Edward R. Cummings, Thomas Malionek, Lance L. Smith, Darlyce M. Eley, William J. Gehron, Marc Warren
Physical assault, General, Stress positions, Isolation, Nudity