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Torture

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  1. February 2009: Torture Investigator Believes Bush Torture Policies Prime Cause of US Combat Deaths in Iraq
  2. February 2010: Justice Department Refuses to Recommend Sanctions against Bush Administration Officials Responsible for Authorizing Torture
  3. February 2010: House Judiciary Committee Accidently Reveals Name of CIA Officer Involved in Detainee Death
  4. (Late February 2003): CIA Aids Questioning of Recently Rendered Extremist in Egypt
  5. Early 2002: Guantanamo Interrogations Often Conducted Ineptly
  6. March 2002: Padilla Begins Planning Attacks on US High-Rise Buildings
  7. March 2002: First Secret CIA Prison Built in Thailand
  8. March 2003: CIA Falsely Claims Kidnapped Imam Is in Bosnia
  9. March 2003: Iraq Prisoner Shot to Death in US Custody
  10. March 2004: Military Interrogation Policy Warns that Some Approved Techniques Violate International Law
  11. Late March through Early June, 2002: FBI Interrogator Gains ‘Actionable Intelligence’ from Zubaida Using Non-Coercive Interrogation Methods
  12. March 7 - Mid-April, 2003: Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Tortured in Poland
  13. March 2007: CIA Kidnapper Gives Interview to GQ Magazine
  14. March 2009: Italian Constitutional Court Suppresses Some Evidence in ‘Italian Job’ Rendition Case
  15. Early April 2002: Al-Qaeda Leader Zubaida Allegedly Incriminates Saudi Princes
  16. March 1993: Confession of Tortured Bombing Suspect ‘Worthless’
  17. 2003: CIA Lawyers View Videos of Detainee Interrogations
  18. Between 2003-Late 2005: White House Official Allegedly Tells CIA Not To Destroy CIA Interrogation Tapes
  19. 2003: CIA Prison in Thailand Closed
  20. 2003: CIA Supervisor Involved in Abuse of Al-Nashiri Leaves Agency
  21. April 2002 and After: President Bush Deliberately Shielded from Knowledge of Harsh Interrogation Techniques
  22. April 2002: Administration Attorneys Discuss Plans to Interrogate Zubaida
  23. April-May 2004: Kidnapped Imam Temporarily Released in Egypt, Claims He Has Been Tortured
  24. (April 2004): CIA Hatches ‘Reverse Rendition’ Plan for Innocent German, Alec Station Manager Still against Releasing Him
  25. (April 2004): Senior CIA Officers Informed of Wrongful Rendition, but Innocent German Remains at Black Site
  26. April 2005: Italian Authorities Issue Arrest Warrant for Kidnapped Imam
  27. April 2005: Human Rights Group Denounces Defense Department Proposal to Detain Iraqi Insurgents without Trial; Pentagon Responds by Purging Electronic Library of All Documents
  28. April - June 2002: Zubaida Interrogated, Tortured by CIA Interrogators in Thailand Prison
  29. April 10-May, 2002: British Terror Suspect Questioned about Nuclear Devices, Tortured in Pakistani Custody
  30. April 2009: CIA Fires Torture Program Designers
  31. April 29 - Mid-May, 2003: Al-Qaeda Suspect Tortured in US Custody
  32. April 1990: US Performs Extraordinary Rendition of Mexican Doctor
  33. 2004: Officer Who Will Later Defend CIA Waterboarding Leaves Agency
  34. (2003-2004): Three White House Officials Asked about Destruction of CIA Interrogation Tapes, Response Unclear
  35. Mid-April-May 2002: FBI Is Appalled by CIA Interrogation of Zubaida; Withdraws Its Personnel
  36. Mid-May 2002 and After: CIA Headquarters Approves and Closely Monitors Zubaida’s Torture
  37. May 2002: Latin American Specialist Appointed Head of CIA Counterterrorism
  38. May 2002-2003: CIA Uses Controversial Waterboarding Technique on Several High-Ranking Al-Qaeda Detainees
  39. May 2003: CIA Informs Italian Military Intelligence Kidnapped Cleric Being Interrogated in Cairo
  40. May 2003: CIA Inspector General Reviews Videotapes of Abu Zubaida’s Interrogations; Several Blank, Waterboarding Sessions Missing
  41. May 2004: US Intelligence Analyst, Interrogator Admit to Enforced Nudity for Detainees at Abu Ghraib
  42. May 2004: Retired General Says US Is Holding 3,000 Terrorist Suspects at Diego Garcia, Bagram Airfield, and Other Undocumented Sites
  43. May 2004: Afghanistan Commanders Operating under Rescinded Rules of Interrogation
  44. (May 2004): National Security Adviser Told CIA Has Innocent Man at Black Site
  45. (May 2004): CIA Director Informed Agency Is Holding Innocent Man at Afghan Black Site
  46. May 2005: Author Claims CIA Hid Explosive Zubaida Interrogation Transcripts from 9/11 Commission and FBI
  47. May-September 2005: Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Requests Over 100 Documents about CIA Interrogation Program, Receives No Reply
  48. Between May and Late 2006: CIA Bans Use of Waterboarding
  49. May 2008: Teen Detainee Brutally Beaten at Guantanamo
  50. May-September, 2001: Future Terror Detainee Journeys to Afghanistan