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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July 24, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3907
Office of the Legal Adviser routing and transmittal slip to Todd Buchwald, Josh Dorosin, JoAnn Dolan and Ed Cummings. No subject or attachements.
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
James H. Thessin
Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan | Ed Cummings
James H. Thessin, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings
Mar. 25, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3942
Re: draft cable detainees release giving editing comments.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Joshua L. Dorosin
Lisa D. Miller | Sylvia Curran | Tina Kaidanow
Joshua L. Dorosin, Lisa D. Miller , Tina S. Kaidanow, Sylvia Reed Curran
Oct. 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3944
Email from Nina Schou to JoAnn Dolan and others Re: talkers on arrest and detention of aliens. The email has an attachment of a response submitted at the Commission on Human Rights that had been drafted with input from Quynh Vu of the Office of ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Nina E. Schou
JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Dawn Burton | Gilda M. Brancado | Jason Torchinsky | Linda Johnson | Laura Flippin | Mona M. Ragheb
Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Nina E Schou, Gilda M. Brancato, Jason Torchinsky, Laura L. Flippin , Mona M. Ragheb , Dawn M. Burton
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3946
Emails between JoAnn Dolan and Tomas Dukes and Others re: Comments by Australian Foreign Minister re Hicks, Habib, and Miltary Commissions. This is a forward of AAP Newsfeed article (11/11/2003 by Paul Mulvey) and has several recipients.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Thomas Dukes
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Thomas Dukes, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Thomas Hemingway, Frederic L. Borch, Sean Connolly
Nov. 13, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3947
This email is a forward from JoAnn Dolan to Ronal Miller and others of an article in Nationwide News Party Limited, concerning Military Commissions for Foreign Detainees at Guantanamo Bay.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ronald W. Miller | Ed Cummings | John W. Crowley
JoAnn J. Dolan, Ronald W. Miller, Todd F. Buchwald, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Thomas Dukes, Whit Cobb
Dec. 11, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3948
Emails between Nina Schou, Robert Harris, JoAnn Dolan, Todd Buchwald and Others re: Human rights groups and members of the small overseas community of ethnic Uyghurs are urging the United States to scrap any plans to send back to China ethnic ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Nina E. Schou
Robert K. Harris | JoAnn J. Dolan | Todd F. Buchwald | Samuel M. Witten
Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Nina E Schou, Joshua L. Dorosin, Samuel M. Witten, Ronald W. Miller
Feb. 19, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3950
This email from JoAnn Dolan forwardeding a transcript of UK Foreign Secretary Jack Straw's statements regarding UK citizens detained at Guantanamo.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | Ronald W. Miller | Thomas Dukes | Ed Cummings | James H. Thessin | Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, Thomas Dukes, Karen L. Hecker, James H. Thessin, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Laura H. Parsky
July 08, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3972
DOS Fax from Nichole Sobotha to Frank Geoffrey, JoAnn Dolan and Joshua L. Dorosin re: Letter from Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). ODIHR request for information regarding cases to be tried by the US in front of the ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Nichole Sobotka
JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Frank Gaffney
Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Francis M. Gaffney
Mar. 26, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3978
DOS Memo from William H. Taft to Secretary of State Powell re: Photographing POWs and the Geneva Conventions. Summary redacted. Discussion explores the US position on photographing and/or releasing photographs of POWs.
Dec. 30, 2004
Non-legal Memo
William Howard Taft, IV
Colin L. Powell
William Howard Taft, IV, Colin L. Powell, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Ronald W. Miller, Steven A. Solomon
Oct. 30, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3981
Emails between Joshua L. Dorosin, Michael T. Peay and Edward R. Cummings re:Treatment of Guantanamo Detainees - Critical Herald Tribune Story, 10/30/02. The email is seeking guidance on Tribune's article about the maltreatment of Guantanamo ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Joshua L. Dorosin
Michael T. Peay | Ed Cummings | Steven A. Solomon | Jeffrey DeLaurentis | Piper A. Campbell | Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Joshua L. Dorosin, Michael T. Peay, Edward R. Cummings, Steven A. Solomon, Jeffrey DeLaurentis, Piper Anne Wind Campbell, Linda Thomas-Greenfield