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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Sept. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4088
Email thanking JoAnn J. Dolan for help getting clearance on a press guidance for an Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Meeting. The Press Guidance is attached. It discusses the U.S. government's and ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Christopher T. Robinson
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris, Odell C. Dehart, Colin L. Powell, Christopher R. Hill, Francis M. Gaffney, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Bridget A. Brink, Christopher Sibilla, Robert Ruhl Simmons, Eliana Davidson
Sept. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4089
This State Department cable is directed to the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw, Poland for a Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) meeting on September 9-20, 2002. The talking points are as follows: The U.S. remains committed to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Colin L. Powell
Colin L. Powell
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4090
Emails discuss a summary on standards of interrogation of detainees at Guantanamo. [Document not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan
David W. Bowker, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Odell C. Dehart, Charles L. Daris, David A. Kaye, James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Samuel M. Witten
June 14, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4091

Email refers to an attached memo that has been revised, the memo appears to be related to detainee transfers. Memo not included.

Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Brent E. Blaschke
JoAnn J. Dolan | David W. Bowker | Kara L. Bue | Brian H. Leventhal | David L. Scott
Brent E. Blaschke , JoAnn J. Dolan, David W. Bowker, David L. Scott, Brian H. Leventhal, Kara L. Bue, Charles L. Daris
Apr. 15, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4092
Email refers to a cable that apparently concerns the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David A. Kaye
Steven A. Solomon | Linda Thomas-Greenfield | Edward R. Cummings | David W. Bowker | JoAnn J. Dolan | James B. Foley
David A. Kaye, Steven A. Solomon, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Edward R. Cummings, David W. Bowker, JoAnn J. Dolan, James B. Foley, Charles L. Daris
Mar. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4093
Email refers to a draft press guidance that appears to concern a Washington Post article discussing the CIA's "assistance in renditions." The email seeks clearance on the press guidance. [Document not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Peter W. Mason
Michael J. Mattler | Linda Jacobson
Peter W. Mason, Michael J. Mattler, Linda Jacobson, Betty A. Bernstein-Zabza, Odell C. Dehart, Mark F. Wong, David L. Scott, Joseph W. Reap, James G. Hergen , Felix Hernandez, Anne S. Casper
May 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4094
Email includes a cable with the following subject: International Committee of the Red Cross delivers note verbale on 'rights and duties' of the U.S. as occupying power. Email is completely redacted.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Theresa K. Mitchell | JoAnn J. Dolan
David Pierce, JoAnn J. Dolan, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Colin L. Powell, Condoleeza Rice, Edward R. Cummings, Michael T. Peay, William Howard Taft, IV, Pierre-Richard Prosper
Oct. 31, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4095
Email refers to four cables, one apparently discusses detainee release and transfers. [Documents are not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Cable
Ronald W. Miller
JoAnn J. Dolan
Charles L. Daris, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Odell C. Dehart
Dec. 28, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4096
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
Nov. 07, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4097
Email refers to a cable that needs clearance. [Document is not attached].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
John F. Goldener
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan, Theodore Sellin