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
Sept. 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4163
Email discusses using an informal approach with Matt Waxman in order to have him provide a briefing on U.S. detainee policy in Afghanistan to Mahmoud Cherif Bassiouni.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Molly C. Phee
Yvette M. Wong | Mark P. Lagon | Brigid R. Weiller
Matthew C. Waxman, Molly C. Phee, Joshua L. Dorosin, Monica J. Tillery, Yvette M. Wong, Mark P. Lagon, Brigid R. Weiller, Harry R. Melone, Lynn M. Sicade
June 23, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4469
Email exchanges concerning clearance for Q&A for D on release of torture documents "in case arises in context of Iraq testimony".
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Cara L. Abercrombie
Mark P. Lagon | Katherine M. Gorove | Rexon Y. Ryu
Cara L. Abercrombie, Joshua L. Dorosin, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Ronald W. Miller, Edward R. Cummings, JoAnn J. Dolan
June 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4313
Emails between June C. Perry, Katherine L. Starr, Mark P. Lagon and Others re: State Final Press Guidance on Ramcharan Human Rights Report on Iraq. Ms. Perry's comments to Ms. Starr are "Great work, Kate."
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
June Carter-Perry
Winston E. Mann | Katherine L. Starr | Mark P. Lagon | Michael G. Kozak | Brook E. Milton
Katherine L. Starr, June Carter-Perry, Mark P. Lagon, Brook E. Milton
May 07, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4317
Email from Katherine MGorove to Vernell Staten and Mark P. Lagon re: Time Sensitive Request: PA Tasking. Partially redacted; involves setting up a meeting to discuss the OHCHR to release a report on human rights in Iraq.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
Katherine M. Gorove
Mark P. Lagon | Vernell Staten
Katherine M. Gorove, Mark P. Lagon, Robert K. Harris, Steven A. Solomon, Edward R. Cummings, Michael T. Peay, Michael G. Kozak