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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May 12, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4272
Email from Sara Stryker to Patricia Haslach and others with an attachment of State Department talking points to address questions concerning allegations of detainees abuse. Ms. Stryker's comments are "for clearance, please, by 1100 if possible. I ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Sara A. Stryker
Patricia M. Haslach | Jonathan J. Carpenter | Ronald W. Miller | Jeremy D. Caddel | John A. Gastright | Patrick M. Stewart | Amanda D. Rogers-Harper | Mustafa M. Popal
Sara A. Stryker, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Ronald W. Miller, Mustafa Popal
May 12, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4273
These emails between Sara Stryker and Jeremy D. Caddel concerning the press coverage of allegations of mistreatment of detainees is sparse on information and only askes to add JoAnn Dolan to the email list for this subject.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Sara A. Stryker
Jeremy D. Caddel
Sara A. Stryker, JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Ronald W. Miller, Mustafa Popal
May 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4274

Press release of trancript of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell On BBC TV with Huw Edwards. Sec. Powell discusses Iraq; Abu Ghraib prison abuse; and the President Bush & UK PM Blair relationship.

Dec. 17, 2004
Other
Colin L. Powell, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Richard B. Myers, George W. Bush
May 14, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4275
Email from Jeremy Caddel to William Taylor concerning a Reuters article about US rejecting the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission access to Afghan detainees. However, it is noted that the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Jeremy D. Caddel
William B. Taylor
William B. Taylor, Pierre-Richard Prosper, David W. Barno
May 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4276
Press release of trancript of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell On BBC TV with Huw Edwards. Sec. Powell discusses Iraq; Abu Ghraib prison abuse; and the President Bush & UK PM Blair relationship..
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Sara A. Stryker
George W. Bush, Colin L. Powell, Donald H. Rumsfeld, Richard B. Myers, Sara A. Stryker
May 12, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4277
United States Embassy in Kabul Responds to Press Report Alleging Abuse.
Dec. 17, 2004
Other
Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad
DOS | ACLU-RDI 4278
DOS Cover Sheet re: Executive Secretary
May 18, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4279
Email between Jennifer Vlau, Sara Stryker and Jeremy Caddel concerning a Reuters article on U.S. Amb. Khalilzad conducting a review of Afghan jails in response to abuse allegations.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Sara A. Stryker
William B. Taylor | Timothy E. Wilder
Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad, Sara A. Stryker, William B. Taylor
May 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4280
Email from Cheryl parker re: International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Presses on Hidden Detainees, Coalition Detention Facilities and the "Bagram Four'.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Cheryl L. Parker
Cheryl L. Parker
May 17, 2004 | NSC | ACLU-RDI 4281
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 ...
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Torkel L. Patterson
William B. Taylor
Torkel L. Patterson, William B. Taylor, Charles Thomas Fingar, Richard A. Boucher, Jennifer C. Noyon