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Torture

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  1. 2004-04-28 Shortly After April 28, 2004-February 2005: CIA Temporarily Suspends Use of Some Aggressive Interrogation Techniques, Including Waterboarding
  2. 2004-05-05 May 5, 2004: Bush Reassures Arab Media that Abu Ghraib Abuses Will Be Investigated
  3. 2004-05-05 May 5, 2004: Abusive Interrogation Techniques Approved by Senior Defense Department Officials, Say FBI E-Mails
  4. 2004-05-06 May 6, 2004: Army Officer Warns of ‘Problems’ with Interrogation Techniques
  5. 2004-05-07 After May 7, 2004: Former Defense Policy Board Member Confronts Rumsfeld about Claims of Ignorance Regarding Abu Ghraib
  6. 2004-05-07 May 7, 2004: Secret Report on Detainee Treatment Completed by CIA Inspector General
  7. 2004-05-07 Between August 2002 and May 7, 2004: Attorney General Ashcroft Informed Detainee Waterboarded 119 Times
  8. 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
  9. 2004-05-13 May 13, 2004: FBI Director Forbids Agents from Participating in ‘Brutal’ CIA Interrogations, Press Learns
  10. 2004-05-13 May 13, 2004: General Admits Treatment of Prisoners at Abu Ghraib Violated Geneva Conventions
  11. 2004-05-25 May 25, 2004: Official Told that Reports of Abuse are ‘True/Valid’
  12. 2004-05-29 After May 29, 2004: CIA Officer Responsible for Wrongful Rendition Promoted to ‘Top Post’
  13. 2004-06-01 June 1, 2004: US Medic Clears Detainee for Further Interrogations; Detainee Beaten, Shocked
  14. 2004-06-08 June 8, 2004: Powell, Rice Confront Gonzales over Secret Torture Memo
  15. 2004-06-16 June 16, 2004: 9/11 Commission Gives Account of Prisoner Interrogations
  16. 2004-06-21 June 21, 2004: Very Little Intelligence Gained from Prisoners Held at Guantanamo; Vast Majority Are Innocent
  17. 2004-06-22 June 22, 2004: Gonzales, Haynes Attempt to Blame Guantanamo Officials for Torture, Legal Justifications
  18. 2004-06-22 June 22, 2004: Justice Department Officials Explain Withdrawal of Torture Memos
  19. 2004-07-07 July 7, 2004: Navy General Counsel Combats Arguments for Torture, Abuse
  20. 2004-07-15 July 15, 2004: Military Lawyer Says Rumsfeld’s Authorization of Torture for Guantanamo Applies to Detainees in Afghanistan
  21. 2004-07-25 July 25-29, 2004: Al-Qaeda Suspect Arrested in Pakistan; Some Allege Announcement Is Timed for Political Effect
  22. 2004-09-15 September 15, 2004: CIA Is Given Court Order to Preserve All Records about Treatment of Detainees
  23. 2004-09-24 September 24, 2004: Porter Goss Sworn in as New CIA Director
  24. 2004-10-05 October 5, 2004: Four US Soldiers Charged with Murdering Iraqi Prisoner
  25. 2004-10-05 October 5, 2004: US Soldiers Charged in Drowning Death of Iraqi Prisoner
  26. 2004-10-19 October 19, 2004: Teenager Designated ‘Enemy Combatant’
  27. 2005-01-11 January 11-16, 2005: American TV News Outlets Largely Ignore Abu Ghraib Soldier’s Trial
  28. 2005-01-16 January 16, 2005: Army Specialist Sentenced to 10 Years in Court-Martial over Abu Ghraib Torture Charges
  29. 2005-01-28 January 28, 2005: Bush Denies that US Renditions Detainees to Countries Practicing Torture
  30. 2005-03-03 March 3, 2005: Soldiers Kill Detainee, Escape Prosecution
  31. 2005-03-13 March 13, 2005: Press Releases ‘Ramadi Madness’ Videos Depicting Iraqi Corpses, Detainees
  32. 2005-03-31 March 31, 2005: NCIS Psychologist: Torture and Coercion Do More Harm than Good
  33. 2005-05-02 May 2, 2005: Al-Qaeda’s Alleged Number Three Leader Is Captured, but Some Suggest His Importance Is Overhyped
  34. 2005-05-06 May 6-9, 2005: Newsweek Reports US Guard Flushed Koran Down Toilet in Guantanamo; Pentagon, White House Blame Newsweek for Lethal Riots in Report’s Aftermath
  35. 2005-05-10 May 10, 2005: Second OLC Memo Finds that Torture Techniques Used in Combination Do Not Violate US Law, Requires Emergency Tracheotomy Kit during Waterboarding
  36. 2005-05-15 May 15, 2005: Administration Official Backs Off on Claim that US Guard Desecrated Koran at Guantanamo
  37. 2005-05-20 May 20, 2005: Army’s Classified Report Finds Brutality, Murders at Bagram Air Force Base
  38. 2005-05-25 May 25, 2005: Amnesty International: Guantanamo the ‘Gulag of Our Time’
  39. 2005-06-03 June 3, 2005: Pentagon Confirms Five Instances of Koran Desecration at Guantanamo
  40. 2005-06-21 June 21, 2005: Pentagon Looks to ‘Expand the [Media] Echo Chamber’
  41. 2005-06-23 June 23, 2005 and After: Italians Issue Arrest Warrants for CIA Officers over Milan Kidnapping
  42. 2005-06-24 June 24-25, 2005: Selected Military Analysts Tour Guantanamo, Repeat Pentagon Talking Points in Media
  43. 2005-06-24 June 24-27, 2005: CNN Analyst Characterizes Guantanamo as Safe, Modern; ‘Laughing’ Detainees Treated ‘Cordially’
  44. 2005-06-25 June 25, 2005: CNN Military Analyst Admits to Drinking ‘Government Kool-Aid’ as Part of Propaganda Operation
  45. 2005-06-27 June 27, 2005: Military Analyst Accuses Guantanamo Detainees of Abusing Soldiers, Follows Pentagon Script
  46. 2005-07-05 July 5, 2005: Pentagon Lists Specific Talking Points for Analysts, Pleased with Results
  47. 2005-07-11 July 11, 2005: Four Al-Qaeda Operatives Escape from US-Run High-Security Prison in Afghanistan
  48. 2005-10-20 October 20, 2005: Cheney Pushes to Exempt CIA from Anti-Torture Amendment
  49. 2005-10-24 October 24, 2005: ACLU Documents 44 Detainee Deaths While in US Custody, Including 21 Homicides
  50. 2005-11-01 November 1, 2005: Cheney Argues in Favor of Continued Torture of Terror Suspects