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 18, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4728
Email from Alexander Karagiannis to State Department officials forwarding a letter from the Guantanamo detainees. Mr. Karagiannis' comments are "Please share with legal comunity. NSC has said it has not yet seen the letter from its mail system. ...
May 09, 2005
Email
Alexander Karagiannis
Ronald W. Miller | JoAnn J. Dolan | Evan T. Bloom
Alexander Karagiannis, Ronald W. Miller, JoAnn J. Dolan, Evan T. Bloom, John-Paul Evans
Dec. 05, 2001 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4417
Ms. Holman request that Mr. Bloom prepare a memo to covering a Harty-Biegun memo.
Jan. 12, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Beverly S. Holman
Evan T. Bloom
Beverly S. Holman, Evan T. Bloom
Mar. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4423
Ed Cummings forwarded email regarding comments made by International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) Pres. Kellenberger at UN meeting witht he working title of his discussion entitled "How Can ICRC Fulfill its Mandate in Conflicts Today". the ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Edward R. Cummings
David W. Bowker | David A. Kaye | Evan T. Bloom | JoAnn J. Dolan | William Howard Taft, IV
Edward R. Cummings, David W. Bowker, David A. Kaye, Evan T. Bloom, JoAnn J. Dolan, William Howard Taft, IV, Alan Kreczko, Arthur E. Dewey
Sept. 02, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4127
Emails between David Bowker, Monica Tillery, Joshua Dorosin, JoAnn Dolan and Others re: PM/IM/S - Visit to Guantanamo Bay 2/15. Attachment not included
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
David W. Bowker
Joshua L. Dorosin | JoAnn J. Dolan | Evan T. Bloom | Edward R. Cummings | Andre M. Surena
David W. Bowker, Joshua L. Dorosin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Evan T. Bloom, Edward R. Cummings, Andre M. Surena, Eric J. Pelofsky, Ted A. Borek, Catherine W. Brown, Katherine M. Gorove, Thomas B. Heinemann, Colin L. Powell