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. 04, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4058
Email refers to an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights brief. [Brief is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Nina E. Schou
JoAnn J. Dolan, Nina E Schou, Harry R. Melone
Mar. 04, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4059
Email refers to an Inter-American Commission on Human Rights reply brief. [Brief is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Nina E. Schou
JoAnn J. Dolan, Nina E Schou, Harry R. Melone
July 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4060
DOS Cover Sheet for a petition from Ambassador Roger F. Noriega to Executive Secretary of the OAS, Santiago Canton. [Petition not incuded].
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Roger F. Noriega
Santiago Canton
Roger F. Noriega, Harry R. Melone
Oct. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4061
Email refers to a brief filed by the U.S. Mission to the Organization of American States. [Brief is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Harry R. Melone
Apr. 30, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4062
Emails discuss a Reuters article that reports a former head of the Guantanamo Bay jail was sent to U.S. operated prisons in Iraq in order to ensure proper prison conditions.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Geoffrey D. Miller, Mark Traecey Patrick Kimmitt, JoAnn J. Dolan, George W. Bush, William J. Gehron
Stress positions, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Other
May 09, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4063
Emails include an Associated Press article that reports on allegations of abuse in Iraq. The article includes accounts of abuse by released detainees, allegations included dog attacks, dietary manipulation and extended periods of hoodings.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Theresa K. Mitchell | JoAnn J. Dolan | Todd F. Buchwald | Harold L. Ingram
Janis Leigh Karpinski, JoAnn J. Dolan, Todd F. Buchwald, Harold L. Ingram, Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Peter G. Schmeelk , Rose M. Likins, Robin H. Sakoda, William J. Gehron
Rahad Naif, Hassan Naif, Saad Naif, Ra'id Mohammed Hassan
Use of electricity, Stress positions, Cramped confinement, Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Environmental manipulation, Temperature, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Other
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
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