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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Feb. 18, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4368
Email forwarded from Jonathan Crock to Ronald Miller containing talking points on torture (mostly dealing with Guantanamo) used for last year's Human Rights Report rollout. Mr. Crock's comments are "Do we have any new guidance on no torture at GTMO?"
Dec. 23, 2004
Email
Jonathan M. Crock
Ronald W. Miller
Jonathan M. Crock, Ronald W. Miller, Sarah F. Ozkan, JoAnn J. Dolan, Christopher N. Camponovo
June 05, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4308
Email from Diana Valderrama to Jonathan Crock and Ronald W. Miller in response to the Embassy in Mexico City requesting guidance in answering an Amnesty International inquiry on the treatment of detainees who are children. Ms. Valderrama's ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Diana Valderrama
Jonathan M. Crock | Ronald W. Miller
Christopher N. Camponovo, Jonathan M. Crock, Ronald W. Miller
June 04, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4307
Emails between Ronald W. Miller and Christopher N. Camponovo in response to a query by the Mexico City Embassy requesting information on children detained at Guantanamo. Mr. Miller responds that the DoD will only acknowledge that all detainees at ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
Christopher N. Camponovo
Ronald W. Miller, Christopher N. Camponovo
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
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
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
Aug. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3856
Emails discuss a statement by Colin L. Powell regarding Uyghur detainees. Mr. Powell apparently stated in an article (link provided) that the Uyghur detainees would not be sent back to China.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin
Colin L. Powell, Monica J. Tillery, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Christopher N. Camponovo, Frank E. Schmelzer