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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Aug. 27, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4157
Email mentions an International Committee of the Red Cross package.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin
Monica J. Tillery, Sharon E. Ahmad, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan
Aug. 05, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3985
Email from David J. Tessler to Jonathan M. Crock and Joshua L. Dorosin re: News Reports from London August 5, 2004. The comment from Mr. Tessler on the email is "Good morning. Another interesting piece in London's daily brief about detainees, ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David J. Tessler
Jonathan M. Crock | Joshua L. Dorosin
Jonathan M. Crock, Joshua L. Dorosin
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
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
July 26, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4167
Emails discuss and include various news articles, one Reuters article is entitled: "US grants protection for anti-Tehran group in Iraq." The articles report that the United States gave 3,800 Iranian rebels at the Ashraf base in Iraq protected ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Philo L. Dibble
Rhonda Shore | Joshua L. Dorosin | David C. Ng | Aaron W. Jost | Richard G. Olson | Paul R. Sutphin | Richard Schlicher | Jason E. Bruder | Deborah K. Jones
Geoffrey D. Miller, Joseph A. Ereli, George W. Bush, Rhonda H. Shore, Aaron W. Jost, Richard G. Olson, Paul R. Sutphin, David M. Satterfield, Ronald L. Schlicher , Philo L. Dibble, Rhonda H. Shore, Jason E. Bruder , Deborah K. Jones, Harry R. Melone
July 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3853
Email forward of a paper written on the three War on Terror cases decisions issued by the Supreme Court in 2004. The paper summarizes Rumsfeld v Padilla, Hamdi v Rumsfeld and Rasul, et al v Bush. All three cases were brought by, or on behalf of, ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Katherine M. Gorove
Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan | Curtis A. Bradley
Katherine M. Gorove, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Curtis A. Bradley, Donald H. Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Janice A. Smith
Jose Padilla, Yaser Esam Hamdi, Shafiq Rasul
July 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4009
Email from Andrew Sagor to Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Robin H. Sakoda and Cara L. Abercrombie re: Clearance/comments needed on red response letter, with an attachment not included. Mr. Sagor's comments are "S/WC1 has been tasked to ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Andrew E. Sagor
Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | Cara L. Abercrombie | Robin H. Sakoda
Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Robin H. Sakoda, Cara L. Abercrombie
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
July 20, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3852
Emails discuss the House Representative request to the Attorney General to transmit documents in his possession relating to the treatment of prisoners and detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin | Peter N. Petrihos
JoAnn J. Dolan, Peter N. Petrihos, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Monica J. Tillery, Frank E. Schmelzer , John Conyers, Jr., Dave Obey, Nancy Pelosi, Steny H. Hoyer, James E. Clyburn, Charles D. Rangel, Henry A. Waxman, Isaac Newton Skelton IV, Tom Lantos, Maurice D. Hinchey, John D. Ashcroft
July 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4158
Emails discuss a visit by an unknown individual and a Baltimore Sun article entitled "Pentagon Says It's Hiding No One From Red Cross." The more recent email is redacted. The news article reports that the Pentagon denies hiding imprisoned ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | James H. Thessin | Edward R. Cummings | Steven A. Solomon | Joshua L. Dorosin | Robert E. Dalton | Lois Allder | Michael T. Peay | Daphne Cook | Rebecca M. Ingber | Avril D. Haines
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, James H. Thessin, Steven A. Solomon, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, L.R. Lohman, Thomas Malionek, Daphne W. Cook, Lois L. Allder, John I. Blanck, Jr., Sharon E. Ahmad, Michael J. Dennis, Robert E. Dalton, Michael T. Peay, Avril Haines, Rebecca M. Ingber, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Lawrence Di Rita