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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Mar. 20, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4425
This email is a follow-up on an earlier email seeking clearance on a cable concerning military commissions.
Jan. 12, 2005
Email
Evan T. Bloom
Jonathan B. Schwartz | Edward R. Cummings | David W. Bowker | David A. Kaye | JoAnn J. Dolan
Michael A. Newton, Evan T. Bloom, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Edward R. Cummings, David W. Bowker, David A. Kaye, JoAnn J. Dolan
Aug. 05, 2004 | Non-US | ACLU-RDI 4315
Email from David P. Stewart to James Hergan, Ronald J. Bettauer, Gilda M. Brancato and Others re: Lawyers Against Torture. Email states that some of the recipients' good friends are signatories of a Lawyers Against Torture statement.
Dec. 17, 2004
Email
David P. Stewart
Christopher N. Camponovo | Ronald J. Bettauer | Katherine M. Gorove | Gilda M. Brancado | Samuel M. Witten | Jonathan B. Schwartz | James Hergen
Christopher N. Camponovo, James G. Hergen , Ronald J. Bettauer, Robert K. Harris, Gilda M. Brancato, Katherine M. Gorove, Samuel M. Witten, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Wynne M. Teel , Richard G. Olson, Michael G. Kozak, Michael J. Dennis
Dec. 19, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4140
State Department email from JoAnn Dolan to Jonathan B. Schwartz and Samuel M. Witten with a draft attachment and a comment "Attached is a draft IM on the court cases yesterday"
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Jonathan B. Schwartz | Samuel M. Witten
Monica J. Tillery, JoAnn J. Dolan, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Samuel M. Witten, Edward R. Cummings, Joshua L. Dorosin, Waldo W. Brooks , Robert E. Dalton
Mar. 25, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4078
Emails discuss revisions to a document. [Document not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
James H. Thessin
JoAnn J. Dolan | Edward R. Cummings | Jonathan B. Schwartz
James H. Thessin, JoAnn J. Dolan, Edward R. Cummings, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Charles L. Daris
Mar. 27, 2003 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4075
Emails refer to and briefly discuss a document being reviewed by Nick Rostow for possible wider circulation and clearance.
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Waldo W. Brooks
Jonathan B. Schwartz | James H. Thessin | Ronald J. Bettauer | JoAnn J. Dolan | Joshua L. Dorosin | David S. Newman
Nicholas Rostow, Waldo W. Brooks , Jonathan B. Schwartz, James H. Thessin, Ronald J. Bettauer, Todd F. Buchwald, JoAnn J. Dolan, Joshua L. Dorosin, David P. Stewart, Todd F. Buchwald, David B. Sullivan , D. Stephen Mathias, David S. Newman , Corin R. Stone, Susan R. Benda , Wynne M. Teel , D. Stephen Mathias
June 07, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4070

Emails discuss and include a Wall Street Journal article entitled "Pentagon Report Set Framework for Use of Torture: Security or Legal Factors Could Trump Restrictions, Memo to Rumsfeld Argued." The article discusses a classified ...

Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Robert K. Harris
Edward R. Cummings | Samuel M. Witten | Tom Malionek | Jonathan B. Schwartz
Donald H. Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, James T. Hill, Condoleeza Rice, Patrick Leahy, William J. Haynes, II, Thomas Malionek, William J. Gehron, Robert K. Harris, Edward R. Cummings, Samuel M. Witten, Michael G. Kozak, James H. Thessin, Jonathan B. Schwartz, William Howard Taft, IV, Robert E. Dalton, Katherine M. Gorove, Lois L. Allder, Daphne W. Cook, Darlyce M. Eley
Threat, Family/others, Stress positions, Sleep deprivation, Dietary manipulation, Nudity, Other Humiliation, Sexual, Religious
May 13, 2004 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 3843

Email includes news articles about high level detainees, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah and the "harsh" interrogation methods the CIA employs. The email includes another article, which reports specific accounts of abuse.

Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Ted A. Borek | Michael J. Dennis | Jonathan B. Schwartz | Katherine M. Gorove
Frank E. Schmelzer , JoAnn J. Dolan, Ted A. Borek, Jonathan B. Schwartz, Katherine M. Gorove, Monica J. Tillery, Michael J. Dennis, Mark P. Lagon, Lorne Craner, Michael G. Kozak, Janice A. Smith, Miriam K. Hughes
Abu Zubaydah, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Walid Bin Attash