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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RelevanceDateRelease Date
Feb. 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3987
Cover sheet, transmittal slips, blank sheet w/ handwriting "To: Don Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Andy Card, FYI"
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jonathan B. Schwartz
Todd F. Buchwald | JoAnn J. Dolan
Jonathan B. Schwartz, Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Andrew Card, Condoleeza Rice, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Colin L. Powell
May 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3983
Email regarding pre-meeting for presenters for ACIL meeting
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Joshua L. Dorosin
Russell K. LaMotte
Russell K. LaMotte, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald
Nov. 26, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3966
Email from Clifton Johnson forwarding an article in the Independent (UK) with the headline "Guantanamo treatment is 'monstrous', says law lord", Dated November 26, 2003. The forwarding comments are: "Folks, The story below was in today's ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Clifton M. Johnson
Pierre-Richard Prosper | JoAnn J. Dolan | Jonathan M. Crock | Todd F. Buchwald | David A. Kaye
Clifton M. Johnson, Pierre-Richard Prosper, JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan M. Crock, Todd F. Buchwald
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
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
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. 11, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3848
Email from Todd F. Buchwald, the opening of the email is completely redacted, but included is a press release entitled "Statement of Senator Edward M. Kennedy on pending nomination of William Haynes." In the press release, Senator Kennedy ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Todd F. Buchwald
JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Waldo W. Brooks | Theresa K. Mitchell
Todd F. Buchwald, Monica J. Tillery, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Waldo W. Brooks , Edward M. Kennedy, Frank E. Schmelzer , William J. Haynes, II
June 23, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3849
Emails discuss the Department of Defenses' recent release of documents, the documents apparently explained the types of interrogation techniques the U.S. employed in Guantanamo. However, the documents are being criticized as insufficient. The ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Ed Cummings
JoAnn J. Dolan | Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | Steven A. Solomon | David Kaye
Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Steven A. Solomon, David A. Kaye, Charles L. Daris, Donald H. Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Ricardo Sanchez
Stress positions, Use of phobias, Nudity
Sept. 21, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3841
Email refers to a news article, which discusses the U.S. Military's CID investigation into allegations of murder and torture of an 18-year-old Afghan Army recruit who was detained by the U.S. The article also discusses the torture of seven Afghan ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Todd F. Buchwald
Joshua L. Dorosin | Ed Cummings
Todd F. Buchwald, Frank E. Schmelzer , Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings