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Torture

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  1. (1985): US Contemplates Rendition from Switzerland of Fugitive Trader
  2. 1990: Later Defender of Waterboarding Joins CIA
  3. Summer 1995: CIA Designs Program to Abduct Islamist Militants and Send them to Egypt
  4. Summer 2000: Former CIA Informer Moves to Milan to Live with Key Al-Qaeda Operative
  5. 1997: CIA Establishes Renditions Branch, Helps with Up to 70 Renditions Before 9/11
  6. After January 2004: 9/11 Commission Decides to Add Disclaimer to Chapters Heavily Based on Detainee Interrogations
  7. After November 2004: CIA Executive Director Reviews Salt Pit Killing, Takes No Action
  8. After November 2005: CIA Legal Office Reviews Videotapes’ Destruction, Conclusion Unknown
  9. After Mid-December 2002: CIA Official Says Al-Nashiri Is Withholding Information during Interrogation, Hooding and Shackling Begin Again
  10. Autumn 2005 or Before: Fears Over CIA Evidence Cause FBI to Build Cases against Guantanamo Detainees
  11. Autumn 2003: KSM Lies, Possibly While under Torture, to Protect Identity of Bin Laden’s Trusted Courier Ahmed
  12. Autumn 2006-Late April 2007: Al-Qaeda Leader Is Kept in Secret CIA Prison, Revealing that CIA Prison System Is Still Operating
  13. Between November 2005 and Summer 2006: Hayden Learns CIA Videotapes Have Been Destroyed; Does Not Inform Congressional Leaders
  14. Before November 2005: Mid-level CIA Lawyers Find No Bar to Destruction of Interrogation Videos
  15. Between April 2002 and November 2005:: CIA Interrogation Videos Held Overseas Despite Security Risk
  16. Between April 2002 and November 2005: Parts of CIA Interrogation Tapes Transmitted to US, Reviewed by Headquarters Officials
  17. Early December, 2002: NCIS Head Learns of Allegations of Abuse at Guantanamo
  18. Early 2002: Padilla Suggests Detonating Nuclear Bomb inside US
  19. Early 2006: Architect of Iraq War Expresses Pride in Decision to Ignore Geneva Conventions in Interrogating Detainees
  20. Fall 2003: Chief Interrogations Officer Acknowledges Detainees Subjected to Stress Positions at Abu Ghraib
  21. Fall 2006: Former Judge Advocate at Guantanamo Says Interrogators Took Ideas from Survival Training, Television Show ‘24’
  22. Fall 1999: CIA Draws Up New Plan to Combat Al-Qaeda; Includes Disruption, Rendition and Capture Operations
  23. Late 2001: Counterterrorism Officials Frustrated at Lack of Intelligence Connecting Iraq and Al-Qaeda
  24. Late February 2003 or Shortly After: Recently Rendered Egyptian Tortured by Local Authorities
  25. Late March 2002: President Bush Allegedly Takes Personal Interest in Interrogation of Zubaida
  26. Late March 2004: CIA Manager Agrees to Release Innocent German, Only on Impractical Condition Germans Follow Him
  27. (Late 2004): Detainee Disputes Allegations at Guantanamo Tribunal Hearing
  28. Late May 2004: German Interior Minister Told CIA Has Wrongly Rendered German Citizen
  29. Late 2005: Pentagon Refuses to Adopt Proposal Directing Military to Observe Geneva Convention Article
  30. Late 2005 or After: CIA Officer Involved in ‘Italian Job’ Rendition Declines Deal to Testify against Agency
  31. (Late July) 2007: OLC Issues Secret Memo Explicating Torture Methods
  32. Late August 2002: Abu Zubaida Subjected to One More Waterboarding Session at Insistence of CIA Headquarters
  33. Late September 2003: Army Interpreter Protests Brutalizing of Prisoners in Iraqi Facility
  34. Late December 2002 or Early January 2003: CIA Official Threatens Al-Nashiri’s Mother, Family
  35. Late 2001-Mid-March 2002: CIA Looks to Brutal Torture Techniques of Egyptians, Saudis, and Soviets in Setting Up Its Interrogation Program
  36. Late 2002: Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh Allegedly Tortured in Jordan
  37. (Mid-January-February 2003): CIA Officer Who Threatened Detainee with Gun and Drill Recalled
  38. Mid-March 2002: CIA Allows 10 Aggressive Interrogation Techniques of Dubious Legality, Including Waterboarding
  39. Mid-April 2002: New CIA Team Arriving to Interrogate Zubaida Uses Completely Untried and Dubious Techniques
  40. Mid-April 2002: Zubaida Identifies Jose Padilla, but Dismisses Him as an Incompetent with Far-Fetched Plans
  41. Between Mid-April and Mid-May 2002: CIA Psychologist Opposed to Torture Techniques Planned for Zubaida Leaves in Disgust
  42. Mid-May, 2002: CIA Proposes Waterboarding of Zubaida to Senior Administration Officials
  43. Mid-July, 2004: Investigative Journalist Charges that Women, Children Raped at Abu Ghraib
  44. Mid-October 2005: Justice Department Decides Not to Prosecute in CIA Abuse Cases
  45. Mid-December 2002: Al-Nashiri Assessed to Be ‘Compliant’ after Torture
  46. (Mid-2006): US Transfers ‘Ghost’ Prisoner Ghul to Pakistani Custody
  47. April 2002 and After: Cabinet-Level Bush Officials Frequently Discuss and Approve Specific ‘Harsh’ Interrogation Techniques
  48. Spring-Late 2002: CIA Videotapes Interrogations of High Value Detainees
  49. Summer 2003: CIA Officials Obtain Permission from Rice to Use Harsh Interrogation Tactics on New Detainee
  50. Summer 2000: FBI Extracts Confession from Embassy Bombing Cell Member without Torture