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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Sept. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4160
Emails mention a discussion that took place in New York concerning the status of a detainee. [Redactions in document make it difficult to read].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Pierre-Richard Prosper | Ronald W. Miller | William Howard Taft, IV | Brian H. Leventhal | Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Andre M. Surena | Katherine M. Gorove | Todd F. Buchwald
Monica J. Tillery, JoAnn J. Dolan, Sharon E. Ahmad, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, William Howard Taft, IV, Brian H. Leventhal, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Andre M. Surena, Katherine M. Gorove, Todd F. Buchwald, Henry Bisharat
July 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4143
Email from Joshua Dorosin to Joshua Lipshutz re: Clearance/comments needed on red border response letter. With the comment "Josh - Can you clear this for UPM? Please call JoAnn at home to review with her and then send any comments directly back ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Joshua L. Dorosin
Joshua S. Lipshultz
Monica J. Tillery, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Robin H. Sakoda, Cara L. Abercrombie, Colin L. Powell
July 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4144
Email from Jonathan Carpenter to Joshua Lipshutz re: Clearance/comments needed on red border response letter. With the comment "couple of suggestions. thanks. jc." The email is forwarding an email from Andrew Sagor with an attachment entitled ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan J. Carpenter
Andrew E. Sagor | Joshua L. Dorosin | Rexon Y. Ryu
Jonathan S. Carpenter, Joshua L. Dorosin, Rexon Y. Ryu, Todd F. Buchwald, Robin H. Sakoda, Cara L. Abercrombie
Jan. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4141
Emails between JoAnn Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald and Others re Urgent Clearance: Checklist for ICRC Kellenberger Meeting with S. Attachments not included, minor comments concerning the attachements.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Carol T. Santos, Ronald W. Miller, Karen L. Hecker, James A. McAtamney, James Burger , Charles A. Allen, John B. Wiegmann, Thomas A. Johnson, Nina E Schou, Neil S. Kromash
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4138
This State Department email is a forwarding of several emails initiated by David A. Kaye with attachments described as: 1) A basic law of armed conflict paper for the interagency; 2) Contingency press guidance on the status of persons captured ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, David W. Bowker, Joshua L. Dorosin, David A. Kaye, Steven A. Solomon, Michael T. Peay, James H. Thessin, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Ronald J. Bettauer, Evan T. Bloom, James Burger , Charles A. Allen, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald
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
Aug. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4125
Email from David Bowker to Joshua Dorosin and Todd Buchwald re: ICRC Report on detainees. Attachment not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald
David W. Bowker, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Monica J. Tillery
Aug. 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4126
Email from David Bowker to William H. Taft IV, James H. Thessin, Edwards R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin and Todd F. Buchwald re: Draft list of priorities on International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Report. No attachment.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
William Howard Taft, IV | James H. Thessin | Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald
David W. Bowker, William Howard Taft, IV, James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald
June 10, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4123
Emails between State Department officials re: Clearance: Kelly-Hagel Letter on Detainees.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Todd F. Buchwald
Joshua L. Dorosin
Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Ronald W. Miller, Edward R. Cummings, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Mikael C. McCowan, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Charles W. Dunne, John F. McNamara
Mar. 11, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4120
Emails between State Department officials concerning a meeting between William Howard Taft, IV and Lorne Craner. The email is mostly redacted.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Todd F. Buchwald
Joshua L. Dorosin
William Howard Taft, IV, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Samuel M. Witten, Andre M. Surena, Linda Jacobson, Marianne J. Hata , Katherine M. Gorove, Nina E Schou, JoAnn J. Dolan