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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July 22, 2005 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4494
State Department memo re: Detainees: Policy and Status. Completely redacted except for "Abu Ghraib: Multiple DoD investigations are currently underway. To date, one of the seven soldiers originally accused of crimes has faced a Special Court ...
Aug. 09, 2005
Non-legal Memo
Cara L. Abercrombie
Richard Schlicher | Paul R. Sutphin | Rexon Y. Ryu | Jonathan J. Carpenter | Charles W. Dunne | Elizabeth H. Richard | Joshua L. Dorosin
Cara L. Abercrombie, Ronald L. Schlicher , Paul R. Sutphin, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Charles W. Dunne, Elizabeth H. Richard, Joshua L. Dorosin
June 18, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4467
Email exchanes concerning the Sec. of State's upcoming testimony.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Katherine M. Gorove
JoAnn J. Dolan | Cara L. Abercrombie | Joshua L. Dorosin | Jonathan J. Carpenter | Rexon Y. Ryu
Katherine M. Gorove, JoAnn J. Dolan, Cara L. Abercrombie, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Ronald W. Miller
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 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4478
Email requests clearance for a Q & A on Detainee Issues. the commeents from Ms. Abercrombie is "All, the attached Q&A is 99% the same as one cleared last week. Please review and clear by 1200 tomorrow. This is for D's briefing to the SASC on ...
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Cara L. Abercrombie
Rexon Y. Ryu
Cara L. Abercrombie, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, JoAnn J. Dolan, Katherine M. Gorove, Joshua L. Dorosin, Ronald W. Miller
July 06, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4479
Email from Cara Abercrombie requesting clearance for an issue paper on detainees. No attachment included.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Cara L. Abercrombie
Rexon Y. Ryu | Jonathan J. Carpenter | Charles W. Dunne | Joshua L. Dorosin
Cara L. Abercrombie, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Joshua L. Dorosin
May 04, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4481
Email asks for a response to request for guidance regarding Department response to International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) report. Contents completely redacted.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Robert P. Waller
Rexon Y. Ryu | Philo L. Dibble | Joshua L. Dorosin
Rexon Y. Ryu, Philo L. Dibble, Joshua L. Dorosin, Todd F. Buchwald, Jonathan S. Carpenter, James A. Larocco
Sept. 16, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3839
Emails discuss the release of approximately one hundred and sixty Abu Ghraib detainees, and the expected release of over 250 the following week.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Amanda C. Pilz
Cara L. Abercrombie | Joshua L. Dorosin | Robin Lerner | Ashley A. Larsen | Elizabeth H. Richard | Ronald W. Miller | Charles W. Dunne | Jonathan J. Carpenter | Rexon Y. Ryu
Amanda C. Pilz, Cara L. Abercrombie, Elizabeth H. Richard, Ronald W. Miller, Joshua L. Dorosin, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Rexon Y. Ryu, Monica J. Tillery, Frank E. Schmelzer , Robin Lerner, Ashley A. Larsen, Charles W. Dunne
Sept. 17, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3969
Emails between JoAnn Dolan Cynthis Francisco, Edward Betancourt and others re: Hamdi Cable. The email has an attachment with the comment "All Agree?" The attached document in entitled "Cable - Clarification on Hamdi."
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ronald W. Miller | Rexon Y. Ryu | Cynthia Stewart Francisco | Edward Betancourt | Catherine W. Brown | David Whiddon | Amal Patel
JoAnn J. Dolan
Yaser Esam Hamdi
June 10, 2004 | ACLU-RDI 4124
Comments attached
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Todd F. Buchwald
Ronald W. Miller | Mikael C. McCowan | Joshua L. Dorosin | Edward R. Cummings | Jonathan J. Carpenter | Rexon Y. Ryu | Charles W. Dunne
Todd F. Buchwald, Ronald W. Miller, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Rexon Y. Ryu, Jonathan S. Carpenter, Mikael C. McCowan
July 22, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4144
Email from Jonathan Carpenter to Joshua Lipshutz re: Clearance/comments needed on red border response letter. With the comment "couple of suggestions. thanks. jc." The email is forwarding an email from Andrew Sagor with an attachment entitled ...
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Jonathan J. Carpenter
Andrew E. Sagor | Joshua L. Dorosin | Rexon Y. Ryu
Jonathan S. Carpenter, Joshua L. Dorosin, Rexon Y. Ryu, Todd F. Buchwald, Robin H. Sakoda, Cara L. Abercrombie
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