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 11, 2004 | CRIM | ACLU-RDI 2734
Heavily redacted email referring to talking points on Iraq.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Rena Comisac | John Richter | Christopher A. Wray | Laura Parsky | David E. Nahmias | Bryan Sierra
Rena Comisac | John Richter | Christopher A. Wray | Laura Parsky | David E. Nahmias | Bryan Sierra
Rena Comisac, John Richter, Christopher A. Wray, Laura H. Parsky, David E. Nahmias, Bryan Sierra, Mark Corallo
May 04, 2004 | CRIM | ACLU-RDI 2737

Heavily redacted email thread re "potential torture involving Iraqi detainees".

Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Laura Parsky | David E. Nahmias | Teresa L. McHenry
Laura Parsky | David E. Nahmias | John Richter | Monique Roth | Teresa L. McHenry
Laura H. Parsky, Teresa L. McHenry, David E. Nahmias, John Richter, Monique Roth
CRIM | ACLU-RDI 2744
Document fully redacted.
Oct. 15, 2004
Non-legal Memo
Teresa L. McHenry
David E. Nahmias | Laura Parsky | Barry Sabin
Teresa L. McHenry, David E. Nahmias, Laura H. Parsky, Barry Sabin
July 30, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 2746

Refers to re: OLC opinion. All other info redacted.

Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Teresa L. McHenry
David E. Nahmias | Barry Sabin | Laura Parsky
Teresa L. McHenry, David E. Nahmias, Barry Sabin, Laura H. Parsky
July 12, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 2755
Email referring to to unclassified version of Department of Justice Criminal Division comments on OLC opinion. The rest of the email contents are redacted.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Teresa L. McHenry
Laura Parsky | David E. Nahmias | Barry Sabin | Ronnie Edelman | Michael J. Mullaney
Teresa L. McHenry, David E. Nahmias, Laura H. Parsky, Barry Sabin, Ronnie Edelman, Michael J. Mullaney
July 14, 2004 | OLC | ACLU-RDI 2757
Email from Terese L. McHenry re: unclassified version of CRM comments on OLC opinion forwarded to David E. Nahmias by Jack L. Goldsmith. All other contents redacted.
Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Jack L. Goldsmith
David E. Nahmias
Jack L. Goldsmith, David E. Nahmias, Teresa L. McHenry, Laura H. Parsky, Barry Sabin, Michael J. Mullaney, Ronnie Edelman
June 16, 2004 | DOJ | ACLU-RDI 2771

Document fully redacted. Email subject: Crim Report for 6/17/2004.

Oct. 15, 2004
Email
Robert Hur
Ronnie Edelman | Monica Gooding | Stuart Levey | David E. Nahmias | Patrick Philbin | John Richter | Barry Sabin | Janet Potter | Robert McCallum | Bryan Sierra | Christopher A. Wray | Patrick Rowan | Daniel B. Levin | James B. Comey
Robert Hur, Mark Corallo, Ronnie Edelman, Monica Gooding, Stuart Levey, David E. Nahmias, Patrick Philbin, John Richter, Barry Sabin, Janet Potter, Robert McCallum, Bryan Sierra, Christopher A. Wray, Patrick Rowan, James B. Comey, Jeffrey Taylor, Chuck Rosenberg, Daniel B. Levin, Adam Isles, Laura H. Parsky, Rena Comisac, Daniel Klein