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 between Torkel Patterson, and William B. Taylor forwarding an email from Thomas Fingar concerning a call from a Los Angeles Times reporter, Greg Miller, that Mr. Miller received a tip that "someone in the Department who does Central Asia ...
Email between Cheryl L. Parker and Diane McBride re: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) President Kellenberger Apologizes for Inaccurate Press Comments on Specifics of Iraqi Prisoner Abusewith attachement noted. Attachment not attached.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Cheryl L. Parker
Diane McBride
Diane McBride, Cheryl L. Parker
Email between Jeremy Caddel, John Gastright re: outstanding detainee cables. The comments from Mr. Caddel to Mr. Gastright are "All, Attached is a short cable to Kabul requesting reply to a couple of detainee cables that are outstanding. Request ...
Email between Ronald W. Miller Jeremy Caddel, John Gastright re: outstanding detainee cables. The comments from Mr. Caddel to Mr. Gastright are "All, Attached is a short cable to Kabul requesting reply to a couple of detainee cables that are ...
Email between Patricia M. Haslach, Jeremy Caddel, John Gastright re: outstanding detainee cables. The comments from Mr. Caddel to Mr. Gastright are "All, Attached is a short cable to Kabul requesting reply to a couple of detainee cables that are ...
Email between Patricia M. Haslach, Jeremy Caddel, John Gastright re: outstanding detainee cables. The comments from Mr. Caddel to Mr. Gastright are "All, Attached is a short cable to Kabul requesting reply to a couple of detainee cables that are ...
DOS Cover Sheet re: Principals Committee Meeting on Detainees
Letter from William F. Schultz, Executive Director, Amnesty International to U.S. President George W. Bush re: Human Rights in Afghanistan.
Dec. 17, 2004
Letter
William F. Schultz
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
Email between Jeremy Caddel and Ronald Miller re: Washington Times articles on changes in Afghan jails and Mr. caddels return from meetings involving the subject. mr. Caddell is stating that he is attempting tp obtain a copy of the Jacoby Report ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Ronald W. Miller
Jeremy D. Caddel
Jeremy D. Caddel, Ronald W. Miller, David W. Barno, Lowell Jacoby
Email from Cheryl Parker to Timothy E. Wilder re: URGENT!! SECRET NODIS SA ACTION-Afghan Desk/Wilder: Detainee Issue. Ms. Parker includes the following comment "DUE TO SA: TODAY, JUNE 16, AT COB ACTION: Afghan Desk - Tim Wilder INFO: TKL, BT ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Cheryl L. Parker
Timothy E. Wilder
Cheryl L. Parker