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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Oct. 28, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4675
State Department email with attached press guidance concerning the possible release of some Guantanamo detainees.
May 04, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin | Edward R. Cummings | William Howard Taft, IV | Todd F. Buchwald | Andre M. Surena
JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, William Howard Taft, IV, Todd F. Buchwald, Andre M. Surena, Ronald W. Miller
Feb. 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4693
Ms. Sanford attacheda document with notes on the Guantanamo detainee issue from the American Bar Association meeting of February 24, 2004 with the following comment: "Marc Bonora (an attorney at Kirkland Ellis and classmate of mine) and I ...
May 04, 2005
Email
Christina A. Sanford
Edward R. Cummings | Todd F. Buchwald | JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Christina A. Sanford
Jan. 09, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4014
Subject line states ICRC only. Ms. Dolan's remarkes are "The cable is in on yesterday's meeting. I also have copies of the two ICRC letters referred from PRM. If anyone does not have copies already, let me know and I will get them around." ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
William Howard Taft, IV | Ronald W. Miller | Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald | Waldo W. Brooks | Edward R. Cummings
JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Waldo W. Brooks , Edward R. Cummings
Jan. 15, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4015
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Ed Cummings, Joshua Dorosin and Others re: PC Memo in Detainee-as sent. There is an attachment on the email, but the attachment is not included.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Waldo W. Brooks | Todd F. Buchwald | Andre M. Surena | Steve A. Solomon
Ronald W. Miller, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Waldo W. Brooks , Todd F. Buchwald, Andre M. Surena, Steven A. Solomon
June 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4037
Email indicates that a document regarding a "torture notional statement" is attached. [Document is not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
James H. Thessin | Todd F. Buchwald | Edward R. Cummings | JoAnn J. Dolan | Katherine M. Gorove
Shahnaz Gheibi, Robert K. Harris, James H. Thessin, Todd F. Buchwald, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan, Katherine M. Gorove
May 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4055
Emails discuss a news article and a Meet the Press interview. The original email states "Newsweek reports that they have obtained a series of OLC memos from the fall of 2001 forward, quotes a State Department lawyer as saying "we were horrified" ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
JoAnn J. Dolan | Edward R. Cummings | Todd F. Buchwald | James H. Thessin
JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, James H. Thessin, Alberto R. Gonzales, Colin L. Powell, William Howard Taft, IV, John C. Yoo
June 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4066
Email refers to an attachment, which is a draft guidance on L memos as reported in a Washington Post report. Ms. Dolan's comments are: "Attached for input/clearance is draft guidance on L memos as reported in today's Washington Post report. We ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings | Todd F. Buchwald | James H. Thessin | Katherine M. Gorove | William Howard Taft, IV | Ronald W. Miller | Jonathan M. Crock
Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, James H. Thessin, Katherine M. Gorove, William Howard Taft, IV, Ronald W. Miller, Jonathan M. Crock
June 24, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4067
Emails discuss and include a cable from the U.K. Bar Association Chair and others expressing their opinion on interrogation methods utilized by the U.S. military in Iraq and Guantanamo. The U.K. Bar Association Chair stated that the "extreme ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Edward R. Cummings | Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | James H. Thessin
Thomas Malionek, William J. Gehron, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, James H. Thessin, Michael J. Dennis
Use of phobias, Sleep deprivation, Isolation, Environmental manipulation, Hooding/Goggling, Nudity, Forced grooming, Other Humiliation
Apr. 02, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4107
Emails between JoAnn J. Dolan, Francis M. Gaffney, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald and Thomas C. Krajeski concerning draft OSCE intervention on the humanitarian situation in Iraq. the final comments from Frank Gaffney ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Francis M. Gaffney
JoAnn J. Dolan | Thomas A. Johnson | Edward R. Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Todd F. Buchwald | Thomas C. Krajeski
JoAnn J. Dolan, Francis M. Gaffney, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Thomas C. Krajeski
Dec. 15, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4112
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Waldo W. Brooks, Todd Buchwald and Others re: MEK Legal Considerations for DC with the comment "Some thoughts/comments".
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Waldo W. Brooks | Todd F. Buchwald | Joshua L. Dorosin | Edward R. Cummings
JoAnn J. Dolan, Waldo W. Brooks , Todd F. Buchwald, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings
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