Convention Against Torture
Events (15)
- October 21, 1994: US Ratifies Convention against Torture Treaty 1994-10-21
- July 22, 2002: OLC: President Not Bound by Convention against Torture 2002-07-22
- August 1, 2002: Justice Department Determines that Waterboarding, Other Harsh Interrogation Techniques Legal 2002-08-01
- April 28, 2004: Bush Administration Argues Supreme Court Has No Role in Deciding Fate of ‘Enemy Combatants’ 2004-04-28
- May 7, 2004: Secret Report on Detainee Treatment Completed by CIA Inspector General 2004-05-07
- May 7, 2004: CIA Inspector General’s Report Concludes CIA Interrogation Techniques Likely Violate Treaty Against Torture; Cheney Prevents Report from Being Completed 2004-05-07
- January 16, 2006: Gore Speaks out against Depredations of Civil Liberties 2006-01-16
- November 11, 2007: New York Times Blasts ‘Rubber-Stamp’ Confirmation of Attorney General Mukasey 2007-11-11
- January 21, 2009: UN Official Says US Obligated to Investigate Bush Officials for Crimes against Humanity 2009-01-21
- March 28, 2009: Spanish Court Considers War Crimes Prosecution of Former Bush Officials 2009-03-28
- April 25, 2009: New York Times Uses Term ‘Brutal,’ Refuses to Use ‘Torture’ in Reporting 2009-04-25
- April 28, 2009: Rice: Bush Made Torture Legal Simply by Declaring It So 2009-04-28
- April 30, 2009: Former White House Counsel: Rice May Have Admitted to Criminal Conspiracy over Bush Torture Policies 2009-04-30
- January 2002 and After: Military Psychologists Propose Series of ‘Harsh’ Interrogation Methods that Amount to Torture
- April - June 2002: Zubaida Interrogated, Tortured by CIA Interrogators in Thailand Prison