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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July 12, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4052
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Edward R. Cummings
Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan | Waldo W. Brooks | Todd F. Buchwald | Ronald J. Bettauer
Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Waldo W. Brooks , Todd F. Buchwald, Harry R. Melone, Ronald J. Bettauer
May 29, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 4053
Emails discuss and include John Yoo's Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled "Terrorists Have No Geneva Rights."
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
John C. Yoo, David P. Stewart, JoAnn J. Dolan, Harry R. Melone, George W. Bush
Aug. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4050
This is a series of forwarded emails of a news article from Radio Free Asia (RFA) entitled "Powell Says U.S. Won't Send Uyghurs Back to China." Messages between recipients have been redacted. The comments of the mail recipients is redacted.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert X. Goldberg
JoAnn J. Dolan | Ronald W. Miller | Christopher N. Camponovo
Colin L. Powell, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Christopher N. Camponovo, Kenneth N. Bailes
Sept. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4051
An email discussing "SR responses."
Dec. 30, 2004
Email, Letter
JoAnn J. Dolan
Sarah E. Prosser
JoAnn J. Dolan, Sarah E. Prosser, Robert K. Harris, Sharon E. Ahmad, Patrick Philbin
Dec. 11, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4048
Emails discuss pleas from human rights groups, like Amnesty International, urging the U.S. to not return Uyghur detainees back to China. The detainees are currently being held in Guantanamo Bay, there is fear that if they are returned the Uyghurs ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Nina E. Schou
Robert K. Harris | JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald | Samuel M. Witten | Gilda M. Brancado
Nina E Schou, Robert K. Harris, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Samuel M. Witten, Gilda M. Brancato, Ronald W. Miller, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Lorne Craner, Sharon E. Ahmad
Aug. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4049
Emails discuss a Radio Free Asia article reporting that the U.S. will not send Uyghur detainees, currently detained in Guantanamo Bay, back to China. Article is attached to message.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Yvette M. Wong
JoAnn J. Dolan
Colin L. Powell, Sharon E. Ahmad, Yvette M. Wong, JoAnn J. Dolan, Christopher N. Camponovo, Ronald W. Miller, Kenneth N. Bailes
Sept. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4045
No relevant text. [No documents included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | Joshua L. Dorosin
Sharon E. Ahmad, JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Joshua L. Dorosin
Nov. 04, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4046
Emails discuss an OSCE meeting and the concerns of various human rights organizations over alleged torture and abuse of detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. The original email has a report attached, which briefly discusses the death ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Francis M. Gaffney
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Francis M. Gaffney, Sharon E. Ahmad, George W. Bush
John Walker Lindh, Dilawar, Habibullah
Stress positions
Nov. 04, 2003 | ACLU-RDI 4047
Email mentions an attached report, entitled "Torture and inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in Selected OSCE Participating States." [Document is not included].
Aug. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4043
Email forward of a Radio Free Asia article, in which Colin L. Powell tells RFA that the Uyghur detainees being held in Guantanamo will not be sent back to China. The article discusses allegations that the Uyghur detainees were abused/mistreated ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Colin L. Powell, Sharon E. Ahmad