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.

Search Result (927)

RelevanceDateRelease Date
Oct. 11, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4181
Letter from the Committee against Torture discussing a request from the High Commissioner for Human Rights. The High Commissioner asked the Committee to ensure that the human rights mandate is maintained with high visibility in light of various ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Charles L. Daris
Feb. 06, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4182
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Steven A. Solomon
Marianne J. Hata | Edward R. Cummings
Charles L. Daris, Steven A. Solomon, Marianne J. Hata , Edward R. Cummings
DOS | ACLU-RDI 4183
Fax Cover Sheet from Steven A. Solomon regarding the Geneva Conventions.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Steven A. Solomon
Steven A. Solomon, Charles L. Daris
Oct. 21, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4179
Email provides a brief report of the October 20, 2003 Inter-American Commission on Human Rights hearing on detainees at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
William Howard Taft, IV | Samuel M. Witten | James H. Thessin | Edward R. Cummings | JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Thomas A. Johnson | Peter M. McKiinley | Elizabeth H. Richard | Margaret J. Pollack | Carrie Santos | Lorne W. Craner
Harry R. Melone, Robert K. Harris, William Howard Taft, IV, Samuel M. Witten, James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Thomas A. Johnson, Lorne Craner, Michael G. Kozak, Carol T. Santos, Margaret J. Pollack, Lynn M. Sicade, Christopher N. Camponovo, Harry R. Melone
Dec. 29, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4180
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
Mar. 10, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4177
Emails discuss correspondence on a Guantanamo matter.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Katherine M. Gorove
James H. Thessin | David A. Kaye | Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan | Samuel M. Witten
Katherine M. Gorove, James H. Thessin, David A. Kaye, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Samuel M. Witten, Roger F. Noriega, Harry R. Melone, Mary P. Stickles, Andre M. Surena, Catherine Mary Malin
July 28, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4178
Most of the emails are completely redacted. The emails that are not redacted, discuss the U.S. government's grant of protection to anti-Tehran groups in Iraq.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ted A. Borek
Joshua L. Dorosin | Eric J. Pelofsky | James H. Thessin | David S. Newman | Michael J. Dennis | Corin R. Stone | Charles E. Tucker
Aaron W. Jost, Amanda C. Pilz, Rhonda H. Shore, Gregory W. Sullivan, Hillary Mann, Brian T. Neubert, Scott W. Busby, Geoffrey D. Miller
May 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4174
Emails refer to a document that apparently discusses Iraq prison sovereignty.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan B. Schwartz
James H. Thessin
Jonathan B. Schwartz, James H. Thessin, Ted A. Borek, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, Michael J. Dennis, Rhonda H. Shore, Brook E. Milton, Katherine L. Starr, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Charles W. Dunne, Hillary Mann, Jarrett Basedow, Newell Highsmith, Peter F. Mulrean , Peggy Hoyle, Damon A. Terrill, Christina A. Sanford , Harry R. Melone
May 07, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4176
Emails discuss talking points for use by the U.S. expert on the Committee Against Torture, discussing what the U.S. will say in response to prisoner abuses in Iraq. Talking points included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
William Howard Taft, IV | James H. Thessin | Samuel M. Witten
Robert K. Harris, William Howard Taft, IV, James H. Thessin, Samuel M. Witten, Katherine M. Gorove, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Elizabeth H. Richard, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Aaron W. Jost, Mark P. Lagon, Elizabeth L. Riley, Anne R. Sorensen, Donald H. Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Charles A. Allen, Patrick Rowan
Feb. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4173
Emails refer to a document apparently described as or entitled Jul 1 info paper. [Document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Todd F. Buchwald
Joshua L. Dorosin | James H. Thessin | William R. Gade | Hal H. Dronberger
William R. Gade, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, James H. Thessin, Harry R. Melone, Hal H. Dronberger