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. 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
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4129
Email from David Bowker to JoAnn Dolan and Joshua Dorosin forwarding and email from Evan Bloom with an attachment entitled 24FJ011. Attachement not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin
David W. Bowker, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Evan T. Bloom, Todd F. Buchwald, D. Stephen Mathias, Ted A. Borek, Linda Jacobson, Andre M. Surena
Apr. 02, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4107
Emails between JoAnn J. Dolan, Francis M. Gaffney, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald and Thomas C. Krajeski concerning draft OSCE intervention on the humanitarian situation in Iraq. the final comments from Frank Gaffney ...
Dec. 30, 2004
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Francis M. Gaffney
JoAnn J. Dolan | Thomas A. Johnson | Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald | Thomas C. Krajeski
JoAnn J. Dolan, Francis M. Gaffney, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Thomas C. Krajeski
Mar. 27, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4075
Emails refer to and briefly discuss a document being reviewed by Nick Rostow for possible wider circulation and clearance.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Waldo W. Brooks
Jonathan B. Schwartz | James H. Thessin | Ronald J. Bettauer | JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | David S. Newman
Nicholas Rostow, Waldo W. Brooks , Jonathan B. Schwartz, James H. Thessin, Ronald J. Bettauer, Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, David P. Stewart, Todd F. Buchwald, David B. Sullivan , D. Stephen Mathias, David S. Newman , Corin R. Stone, Susan R. Benda , Wynne M. Teel , D. Stephen Mathias
July 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4069
Emails discuss and include an Associated Press article that includes a BBC interview by Brigadier General Janis L. Karpinski, wherein she states she met a man at Abu Ghraib who told her he was Israeli and that he was conducting interrogations. ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan B. Schwartz
Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan
Janis Leigh Karpinski, Darlyce M. Eley, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Beverly S. Holman, Jennifer L. Viau, Donald H. Rumsfeld, William J. Gehron
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 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4055
Emails discuss a news article and a Meet the Press interview. The original email states "Newsweek reports that they have obtained a series of OLC memos from the fall of 2001 forward, quotes a State Department lawyer as saying "we were horrified" ...
Dec. 30, 2004
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JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan | Edward R. Cummings | Todd F. Buchwald | James H. Thessin
JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, James H. Thessin, Alberto R. Gonzales, Colin L. Powell, William Howard Taft, IV, John C. Yoo
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
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
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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
June 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4037
Email indicates that a document regarding a "torture notional statement" is attached. [Document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
James H. Thessin | Todd F. Buchwald | Edward R. Cummings | JoAnn J. Dolan | Katherine M. Gorove
Shahnaz Gheibi, Robert K. Harris, James H. Thessin, Todd F. Buchwald, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Katherine M. Gorove
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