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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May 18, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4728
Email from Alexander Karagiannis to State Department officials forwarding a letter from the Guantanamo detainees. Mr. Karagiannis' comments are "Please share with legal comunity. NSC has said it has not yet seen the letter from its mail system. ...
May 09, 2005
Email
Alexander Karagiannis
Ronald W. Miller | JoAnn J. Dolan | Evan T. Bloom
Alexander Karagiannis, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Evan T. Bloom, John-Paul Evans
Mar. 10, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4701
State Department email forwarded by JoAnn Dolan from Robert Harris concerning Human Rights Watch report critical of U.S. Action in Afghanistan. Mr. Harris' email has the comment "Human Rights Watch in the past few days issued a highly critical ...
May 04, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Eliana Davidson | Laura Parsky | David Nahmias | Patrick Philbin | Chuck Allen | Karen Hecker
JoAnn J. Dolan, Robert K. Harris, Michael G. Kozak, Mark P. Lagon, Thomas A. Johnson, Joshua L. Dorosin, Lynn M. Sicade, Charles A. Allen, Eliana Davidson, Karen L. Hecker, John B. Wiegmann, Laura H. Parsky, James A. McAtamney, David E. Nahmias, Patrick Philbin, Ronald W. Miller, Jennifer Koester, John B. Bellinger, III, Jack L. Goldsmith, William Howard Taft, IV, Steven A. Solomon, Michael T. Peay
Feb. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4693
Ms. Sanford attacheda document with notes on the Guantanamo detainee issue from the American Bar Association meeting of February 24, 2004 with the following comment: "Marc Bonora (an attorney at Kirkland Ellis and classmate of mine) and I ...
May 04, 2005
Email
Christina A. Sanford
Edward R. Cummings | Todd F. Buchwald | JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Christina A. Sanford
June 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4674
State Department cover sheet for delivery of documents re: PCC Meeting on Detainees
June 08, 2005
Other
John Bellinger
JoAnn J. Dolan | Pierre-Richard Prosper | Anthony Fortune
John B. Bellinger, III, JoAnn J. Dolan, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, Anthony Fortune, Jay Alan Liotta, Bruce Swartz, Diane E. Beaver, Eliana Davidson, Patrick Rowan
Jan. 22, 2004 | WH | ACLU-RDI 4671
Cover page for document to be delivered to administration personnel concerning the January 22, 2004 PCC meeting on detainees.
June 08, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Bruce Swartz, Pierre-Richard Prosper, JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Eliana Davidson, John B. Wiegmann
July 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4645

This email is a forward of a July 4, 2004 article in the New York Times entitled "Officials Detail A Detainee Deal By 3 Countries" which makes the claim that the U.S. released certain detainees from Guantanamo in consideration fro ...

Dec. 02, 2004
Email
Tom Malionek
Lois Allder | John Blanck
JoAnn J. Dolan
May 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4635
Email from a DOS Official to DOJ Officials. The email includes a New York Times article, which discusses the Justice Department's investigation into the CIA and their contractors for their possible involvement in the death of three detainees, one ...
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
David Nahmias | Patrick Philbin
Patrick Philbin, David E. Nahmias, JoAnn J. Dolan, Pat Roberts, Antonio Taguba
Abed Hamed Mowhoush
June 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4478
Email requests clearance for a Q & A on Detainee Issues. the commeents from Ms. Abercrombie is "All, the attached Q&A is 99% the same as one cleared last week. Please review and clear by 1200 tomorrow. This is for D's briefing to the SASC on ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Cara L. Abercrombie
Rexon Y. Ryu
Cara L. Abercrombie, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, JoAnn J. Dolan, Katherine M. Gorove, Joshua L. Dorosin, Ronald W. Miller
June 23, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4469
Email exchanges concerning clearance for Q&A for D on release of torture documents "in case arises in context of Iraq testimony".
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Cara L. Abercrombie
Mark P. Lagon | Katherine M. Gorove | Rexon Y. Ryu
Cara L. Abercrombie, Joshua L. Dorosin, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Ronald W. Miller, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan
June 14, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4466
Emails concerning press guidance regarding the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) and their February 2004 report.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
John A. Buche
JoAnn J. Dolan | Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Ronald W. Miller
John Allen Buche, JoAnn J. Dolan, Margaret J. Pollack, Ronald W. Miller, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Waldo W. Brooks