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Torture

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  1. 2009-05-05 May 5, 2009: Experts Find ‘Ticking Time Bomb’ Justification of Torture Fallacious
  2. 2009-05-09 May 9, 2009: Former Kennedy Official Criticizes Lawyers for Allowing Torture under Bush
  3. 2009-05-10 May 10, 2009: Cheney: Bush Knew of Torture Program
  4. 2009-05-10 (May 10, 2009): Former Afghan Training Camp Manager Al-Libi Allegedly Commits Suicide in Libyan Jail
  5. 2009-05-13 May 13, 2009: CIA Officer Sues Government over Italian Rendition
  6. 2009-06-15 June 15, 2009: CIA Releases Redacted Statements from Guantanamo Detainees Alleging Torture
  7. 2009-06-30 June 30, 2009: Abu Omar Kidnapper: ‘I Was a Soldier’
  8. 2009-07-01 July 1, 2009: Detainee Makes Declaration Claiming Torture at Bagram, Guantanamo
  9. 2009-08-12 August 12, 2009: Former SERE Chief: Techniques to ‘Break’ Prisoners Not Useful for Extracting Information
  10. 2009-08-24 August 24, 2009: Cheney: CIA Report Proves Torture Effective
  11. 2009-08-24 August 24, 2009: CIA Releases Classified Reports Purporting to Prove that Torture is Effective
  12. 2009-08-24 August 24, 2009: Response to Announcement of Preliminary Torture Probe Mixed
  13. 2009-08-24 August 24, 2009: Attorney General Names Special Prosecutor to Investigate Allegations of CIA Torture
  14. 2009-08-24 August 24, 2009: Obama Administration Releases 2004 CIA Report on Torture
  15. 2009-08-24 August 24, 2009: Obama Administration to Continue Rendition Policy
  16. 2009-08-24 August 24, 2009: RNC: CIA Report Proves Efficacy of Torture
  17. 2009-08-24 Before August 24, 2009: ’Screaming Match’ Allegedly Precedes Release of 2004 CIA Report
  18. 2009-08-24 August 24, 2009: White House Announces Creation of ‘High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group’
  19. 2009-08-25 August 25, 2009: Former CIA Case Officer: Cheney Is Wrong to Say Documents Prove Torture Works
  20. 2009-08-26 August 26, 2009: Justice Department Agrees to Pay Legal Costs of CIA Officer Accused of Italian Kidnapping Shortly before Verdict Announced
  21. 2009-09-01 September 1-3, 2009: Gonzales Supports CIA Investigation, Then Retreats from Support
  22. 2009-09-18 September 18, 2009: Seven Former Directors Oppose Durham Probe of CIA Torture Allegations
  23. 2009-09-18 September 18, 2009: Law Professor Asks that Former Bush Officials Cooperate with Torture Investigation
  24. 2009-09-22 September 22, 2009: US Tells Italy It Does Not Have Jurisdiction over Military Officer Charged in Kidnapped Imam Case
  25. 2009-11-04 November 4, 2009: 23 US Officials Found Guilty over ‘Italian Job’ Rendition
  26. 2009-11-13 November 13, 2009: Administration Announces Five High-Value Detainees to Be Tried in Criminal Court, Five to Remain in Military Commissions
  27. 2010-03-28 March 28, 2010: Associated Press Reports Name of Afghan Detainee Who Died at CIA-Controlled Prison
  28. 2010-03-31 March 31, 2010: Reporter Says CIA Officer Who Caused Prisoner to Freeze to Death Still Employed by Agency
  29. 2011-05-02 Shoftly After May 2, 2011: Bin Laden’s Death Reignites Debate over Usefulness of US Torture Techniques
  30. 2011-05-04 May 4, 2011: Fox Business Channel Viewers List People They Want Waterboarded, Include Obama, Progressive Talk Show Hosts
  31. January 2002 and After: Yemeni Captured in Iran, Given to Americans, Tortured in Afghanistan
  32. January-April 2002: FBI Gives Control of Al-Qaeda Prisoners to CIA; Bush Rejects Law Enforcement Approach
  33. January 2002 and After: Military Psychologists Propose Series of ‘Harsh’ Interrogation Methods that Amount to Torture
  34. January 2003: US Commanders in Afghanistan Ask for Clarification on Interrogation Techniques, Receive Silence
  35. January 2003: CIA Inspector General Asked to Investigate Abuse of High-Value Detainee at Black Site
  36. Early January, 2003: Navy’s General Counsel Continues to Battle Use of Harsh Interrogation Techniques
  37. January 2003: Newly Arrived CIA Officers Report Use of Unauthorized Techniques to Headquarters
  38. (January 2003): CIA Inspector General Learns Practices at Black Site May Violate Human Rights
  39. January 2007: CIA Prevents Justice Department Investigators from Talking to Abu Zubaida
  40. January-September 2004: British Terror Suspect ‘Rendered’ to ‘Dark Prison’ in Afghanistan
  41. January 2009: Obama Sends Team to Confer with CIA over Torture, Secret Prisons
  42. January 23-Late January, 2003: Navy General Counsel Shocked at Justice Department Torture Memo
  43. February 2003: CIA Tells Small Group of Congresspeople It Has Detainee Interrogation Tapes; Two Warn CIA Not to Destroy Them
  44. November 2005: CIA Has Many Reasons Not to Destroy Videotapes of Detainee Interrogations
  45. February 2003: Iraq-Bound Task Force Adopts Torture Methods Used in Afghanistan
  46. February 2004: Abu Ghraib Dog Handler Acknowledges Military Intelligence Official Instructed Him to Use Dogs on Detainees
  47. February 2004: Secret Detention Facility Commander Alludes to Drugging of Detainees by CIA
  48. (February 2004): CIA Determines Passport of Wrongly Held German Citizen Is Not Forged; Detainee Still Held in Afghanistan
  49. February 2006: Former Navy General Counsel Says Administration’s Response to 9/11 Flawed from Beginning, Led to Torture
  50. February 2009: State Department Cancels Diplomatic Passport of CIA Officer Involved in ‘Italian Job’ Rendition