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
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
Jan. 16, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4474
Emails concerning a memo on detainees with attachment.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Joshua L. Dorosin
JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, Edward R. Cummings, Waldo W. Brooks , Todd F. Buchwald, Andre M. Surena, Ronald W. Miller
Mar. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3755
This is a DOS Routing and Transmittal Slip for DOS Officials to initial - re: UK Detainees at Guantanamo Bay: Application for Judicial Review
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jonathan B. Schwartz
JoAnn J. Dolan | Ed Cummings | David Kaye
JoAnn J. Dolan, Evan T. Bloom, David W. Bowker, Edward R. Cummings, Andre M. Surena, David A. Kaye
Mar. 18, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3798
This is a DOS Routing and Transmittal Slip for DOS Officials to initial - re: UK Detainees at Guantanamo Bay: Application for Judicial Review
Dec. 30, 2004
Letter
Jonathan B. Schwartz
JoAnn J. Dolan | Ed Cummings | David Kaye
JoAnn J. Dolan, Evan T. Bloom, David W. Bowker, Edward R. Cummings, Andre M. Surena, David A. Kaye
Sept. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4013
Message entirely redacted except for a footnote that states "Note: The detainee's father — who has publicized his son's situation by occupying in a cage in downtown Stockholm throughout the past week — staged a protest in front of the Embassy on ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Pierre-Richard Prosper | Ronald W. Miller | William Howard Taft, IV | Brian H. Leventhal | Ed Cummings | Joshua L. Dorosin | Andre M. Surena | Todd F. Buchwald
JoAnn J. Dolan, Pierre-Richard Prosper, Ronald W. Miller, William Howard Taft, IV, Brian H. Leventhal, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Andre M. Surena, Katherine M. Gorove, Todd F. Buchwald
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
July 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4041
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Katherine M. Gorove | Andre Surena
Shahnaz Gheibi, JoAnn J. Dolan, Katherine M. Gorove, Andre M. Surena, Sharon E. Ahmad
Apr. 01, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4042
Statement of Andre Surena to the annual meeting of the American Society of International Law, March 31-April 3, 2004. Statement discusses the status/classification of detainees at Guantanamo, whether the detainees should be classified as POWs, ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Interview (Statement)
Andre Surena
Andre M. Surena, Sharon E. Ahmad
Mar. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4082
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Andre M. Surena
JoAnn J. Dolan
Andre M. Surena, JoAnn J. Dolan, Charles L. Daris
Mar. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4083
No relevant text.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Andre M. Surena
JoAnn J. Dolan
Andre M. Surena, JoAnn J. Dolan