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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Apr. 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4476
Emails between State Department officials with attachement entitled "DC BM 040604 - MEK Corruption…" no attachment included.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Waldo W. Brooks
Aaron W. Jost | Scott W. Busby | Michael Miller
Waldo W. Brooks , Aaron W. Jost, Joshua L. Dorosin, Jonathan S. Carpenter
Apr. 30, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4016
A Proposed response to Patton Boggs lawyers attachment (not included).
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Waldo W. Brooks
Todd F. Buchwald | Curtis A. Bradley | Philo L. Dibble | James Burger | Aaron W. Jost
Waldo W. Brooks , Todd F. Buchwald, Curtis A. Bradley, Philo L. Dibble, James Burger , Aaron W. Jost
July 26, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4167
Emails discuss and include various news articles, one Reuters article is entitled: "US grants protection for anti-Tehran group in Iraq." The articles report that the United States gave 3,800 Iranian rebels at the Ashraf base in Iraq protected ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Philo L. Dibble
Rhonda Shore | Joshua L. Dorosin | David C. Ng | Aaron W. Jost | Richard G. Olson | Paul R. Sutphin | Richard Schlicher | Jason E. Bruder | Deborah K. Jones
Geoffrey D. Miller, Joseph A. Ereli, George W. Bush, Rhonda H. Shore, Aaron W. Jost, Richard G. Olson, Paul R. Sutphin, David M. Satterfield, Ronald L. Schlicher , Philo L. Dibble, Rhonda H. Shore, Jason E. Bruder , Deborah K. Jones, Harry R. Melone
May 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4628
Emails between DOS Officials briefly discussing an Indian citizen custody at Abu Ghraib and email forward of an Associated Press article discussing the release of Saddam Hussein from U.S. control to Iraq control.
Nov. 23, 2004
Email
Aaron M. Cope
Aaron W. Jost | James P. Seevers | Nicholas J. Dean
Frank E. Schmelzer , Aaron M. Cope , Aaron W. Jost, James P. Seevers , Nicholas J. Dean, Brian T. Neubert, John R. Waters, Cara L. Abercrombie