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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Jan. 31, 2002 | ACLU-RDI 4655
Emanl from Ed Cummings concerning the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) going to Guantanamo to meet with the detainees. the comments are: FYI: I called last night (Wed.) with three questions I He indicated that at the meeting last ...
Jan. 02, 2005
Email
Edward R. Cummings
Steven A. Solomon | Linda Thomas-Greenfield | Nicholas M. Miscione | David A. Kaye | David W. Bowker | Betsy A. Lippman | Alan J. Kreczko
Edward R. Cummings, Steven A. Solomon, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Nicholas M. Miscione, Alan Kreczko, David A. Kaye, David W. Bowker, James H. Thessin, William Howard Taft, IV
Feb. 13, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4306
Email from Betsy Lippman to State Department officers concerning discussions with the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) legal division in a follow-up to discussions with ICRC President Kellenberger. The email is heavily redacted.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Bessy A. Lippman
Edward R. Cummings | David W. Bowker | Alan Kreczko | Arthur E. Dewey | James B. Foley | Kevin Edward Moley | Michael T. Peay | Nicholas M. Miscione | Dona R. Tarpey | Douglas Hunter
Michael T. Peay, Edward R. Cummings, David W. Bowker, Alan Kreczko, Douglas Hunter, Arthur E. Dewey , James B. Foley, Kevin Edward Moley, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Nicholas M. Miscione, George W. Bush