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. 26, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4427
Email from Samuel Witten forwarding an email with attachments concerning President Issues/Military Orders.
Jan. 12, 2005
Cable
Samuel M. Witten
David W. Bowker | Linda Jacobson | JoAnn J. Dolan | Michael A. Newton | Denise Manning
Samuel M. Witten, Linda Jacobson, JoAnn J. Dolan, Michael A. Newton
July 16, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4025
Email from JoAnn Dolan to Emily Willmott, Carl Newns, Linda Jacobson and Todd Buchwald re: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) Reply with attachements (attachments not included).
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
JoAnn J. Dolan
Linda Jacobson | Todd F. Buchwald | Anne C. Brunson
JoAnn J. Dolan, Linda Jacobson, Todd F. Buchwald
Mar. 11, 2002 | DOS | ACLU-RDI 4093
Email refers to a draft press guidance that appears to concern a Washington Post article discussing the CIA's "assistance in renditions." The email seeks clearance on the press guidance. [Document not included].
Dec. 30, 2004
Email
Peter W. Mason
Michael J. Mattler | Linda Jacobson
Peter W. Mason, Michael J. Mattler, Linda Jacobson, Betty A. Bernstein-Zabza, Odell C. Dehart, Mark F. Wong, David L. Scott, Joseph W. Reap, James G. Hergen , Felix Hernandez, Anne S. Casper