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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Emails discuss and refer to press guidances for Richard Boucher.
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Waldo W. Brooks, Todd Buchwald and Others re: MEK Legal Considerations for DC with the comment "Some thoughts/comments".
Email from Todd F. Buchwald to Joshua L. Dorosin, Waldo W. Brooks and Edward R. Cummings re: Detainees with attachment. the comments from Mr. Buchwald are "These are the notes I drafted on the DOD paper in case we need to discuss this at John's ...
State Department email from JoAnn Dolan to Jonathan B. Schwartz and Samuel M. Witten with a draft attachment and a comment "Attached is a draft IM on the court cases yesterday"
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