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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Email from Robert Harris forwarding an email with and attached news article entitled "Pentagon Report set framework for use of torture."
This email exchange between State Department officials concerns an upcoming meeting to address the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) report on detainees.
Emanl from Ed Cummings concerning the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) going to Guantanamo to meet with the detainees. the comments are: FYI: I called last night (Wed.) with three questions I He indicated that at the meeting last ...
This State Department memo states who the participants are for a meeting with International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) being held on January 25, 2002.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
William Howard Taft, IV, Paula J. Dobriansky
Fax cover sheet from Frank A. Sieverts of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) to Ed Cummings of the State Department with notation that a letter is attached for William Howard Taft, IV
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Frank A. Sieverts
Ed Cummings
William Howard Taft, IV
Letter from International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Delegation, Christophe Girod to Mike McKinley, DOS re: Visit to Guantanamo Bay, August 18-October 10, 2003. The letter reference an attachment that is a confidential "Working ...
Letter from Christophe Girod, International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) to William H. Taft IV, DOS re: Situation of Persons Detained in Afghanistan. The letter references a Note sent to other U.S. Officials and states "This Note and the ...
Fax and letter from International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of Delegation Christophe Girod to William Howard Taft, IV of the State Department re: Repatriation of seven nationals of the Russian Federation from Guantanamo on 2/27/04.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Christophe Girod
William Howard Taft, IV
William Howard Taft, IV, Charles A. Allen, John B. Bellinger, III
Fax cover sheet from International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Head of the Legal DivIsIon, Jean-Philippe Lavoyer, to William Taft, legal advisor, DOS re: Letter from Francois Bugnion, Director for International Law and Cooperation within ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jean-Philippe Lavoyer
William Howard Taft, IV
William Howard Taft, IV
Letter from Christophe Girod, Head of Regional Delegation for International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), to Mike McKinley, Deputy Asst Secretary for Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), accompanying ICRC working paper on sixth visit ...