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Prisoner Abuse in Iraq, Afghanistan and Elsewhere

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  1. 2005-11-01 November 1-4, 2005: White House Continues to Battle Anti-Torture Amendment
  2. 2005-11-02 November 2-18, 2005: Media Reveals Details of Secret CIA Prisons and Possible Use of Torture
  3. 2005-11-03 November 3-14, 2005: CIA Again Wrongly Informs Court about Detainee Recordings in Moussaoui Case
  4. 2005-11-04 November 4, 2005: US Charges British Citizen with Conspiracy in Padilla ‘Dirty Bomb’ Plot
  5. 2005-11-17 November 17, 2005: Defense Department Admits to Detaining Over 80,000 in War on Terror, at least 14,000 Still in Custody
  6. 2005-11-21 November 21, 2005: McCain Writes Powerful Plea against US Torture Practices
  7. 2005-11-22 November 22, 2005: Padilla Indicted for Lesser Crimes, Not on ‘Dirty Bomb’ Allegations
  8. 2005-12-06 December 6, 2005: Teenager Declared a Continuing Danger to US National Security
  9. 2005-12-06 December 6, 2005: Khalid el-Masri Files Lawsuit against CIA for Mistaken Abduction
  10. 2005-12-15 December 15-16, 2005: Bush Agrees to Support Anti-Torture Amendment, with Changes
  11. 2005-12-20 December 20, 2005: Cheney: Torture Is ‘in the Eye of the Beholder’
  12. 2005-12-30 December 30, 2005: Cheney, Addington Rewrite Bush Signing Statement on Detainee Treatment Act
  13. 2005-12-30 Before December 30, 2005: Cheney, Allies Surreptitiously Rewrite Detainee Treatment Act
  14. 2006-01-02 January 2, 2006: Law Professor: ‘You Didn’t Think Cheney and Addington’ Would ‘Go Down Quietly’ on Torture Amendment?
  15. 2006-01-04 January 4, 2006: Republican Senators Criticize Bush’s Signing Statement Regarding Detainee Treatment Act
  16. 2006-01-12 January 12, 2006: ACLU Documents Show Prisoner Abuse at US Facilities; Task Force Participation Documented
  17. 2006-01-12 January 12, 2006: Rumsfeld Denies Abuses at Guantanamo Exist
  18. 2006-01-19 January 19, 2006: US Soldier Testifies that Interrogation Methods Undefined, Superiors Wanted ‘Gloves to Come Off’
  19. 2006-01-19 January 19, 2006: CIA Witness Testifies that US Soldier Accused of Murdering Iraqi Prisoner Disregarded Interrogation Rules
  20. 2006-01-24 January 24, 2006: Soldier Convicted of Killing Iraqi Prisoner, Is Only Reprimanded
  21. 2006-01-26 January 26, 2006: Bush: US Interrogators Prohibited from Torture ‘Anywhere in the World’
  22. 2006-01-27 January 27, 2006: Verdict Calls into Question Army’s Ability to Grapple with Torture, Former Intelligence Instructor Says
  23. 2006-02-06 February 6, 2006: CIA Counterterrorism Chief Removed from Position; Opposition to Torture May Have Impelled Removal
  24. 2006-02-23 February 23, 2006: ACLU Releases Documents Proving Senior Pentagon Officials Authorized Harsh Interrogation Tactics
  25. 2006-04-05 April 5, 2006: DIA Official Submits Hearsay Evidence against Al-Marri
  26. 2006-04-12 April 12, 2006: Italian Government Declines to Seek Extradition of CIA Officers over Kidnapped Imam
  27. 2006-04-19 April 19, 2006: Former CIA Official: CIA Divided into ‘SS Group… Willing to Do Anything’ and ‘Wehrmacht Group’ that Will Not ‘Touch This Stuff’
  28. 2006-04-20 April 20, 2006: British Government Demands Al-Rawi Be Released from Guantanamo after It Is Revealed He Was British Informant
  29. 2006-05-02 May 2, 2006: ACLU Releases Documents Proving Abuses in Iraq, Authorizations from Top Military Commander
  30. 2006-05-03 May 3, 2006: Moussaoui Sentenced to Life in Prison for Role in 9/11 Attacks; Escapes Death Penalty by One Vote
  31. 2006-05-05 May 5, 2006: CIA Director Goss Resigns amid Scandal; Replaced by Former NSA Director Michael Hayden
  32. 2006-05-18 May 18, 2006: Khalid El-Masri’s Lawsuit against CIA Dismissed Using State-Secrets Privilege
  33. 2006-05-23 May 23, 2006: US Denies Charges of Torture at Guantanamo
  34. 2006-06-17 June 17, 2006: Defense Department Releases ‘Formica Report’ to Public
  35. 2006-06-19 June 19, 2006: ACLU Documents Suicide Attempts by Guantanamo Detainees
  36. 2006-06-30 June 30, 2006: Supreme Court Rules Existing Guantanamo Military Commissions Are Illegal; Detainees There Have Legal Rights
  37. 2006-07-03 July 3, 2006: ACLU: Just-Released Torture Report a ‘Whitewash’
  38. 2006-07-10 July 10, 2006: ACLU Releases Documents Proving Defense Department Officials Allowed Torture to Continue
  39. 2006-07-12 July 12, 2006: Bush Administration Agrees to Follow Geneva Conventions with All Al-Qaeda Suspects in US Custody
  40. 2006-09-02 September 2-3, 2006: US Temporarily Closes Secret CIA Prisons, Transfers Top Suspects to Guantanamo for Military Tribunals
  41. 2006-09-06 September 6, 2006: Bush Admits Existence of Secret CIA Prisons, Announces Plans to Try Top Al-Qaeda Leaders in Military Tribunals
  42. 2006-09-06 September 6, 2006: US Military Issues New Rules Explicitly Prohibiting Torture
  43. 2006-09-06 Shortly After September 6, 2006: Red Cross Interviews of Top Al-Qaeda Prisoners Indicate They Were Illegally Tortured by CIA
  44. 2006-09-17 September 17, 2006: Former Guantanamo Detainee Protests Possible Denial of Detainees’ Right to Court Hearings
  45. 2006-09-28 September 28, 2006: Obama Criticizes Military Commissions Act
  46. 2006-09-29 September 29, 2006: Senior Defense Officials Allegedly Request Al-Qaeda Detainee Convictions before 2008 US Election
  47. 2006-10-03 October 3, 2006: US Wants to Return Nine Guantanamo Detainees to Britain, but Britain Does Not Want Them
  48. 2006-10-24 October 24-27, 2006: Cheney: ‘No-Brainer’ to Authorize Waterboarding
  49. 2006-11-10 November 10, 2006: CIA Acknowledges Existence of Documents Authorizing Detention, Interrogation of Terror Suspects Overseas
  50. 2006-12-14 October 6 - December 14, 2006: International Committee of the Red Cross Interviews 14 Detainees Formerly in Secret CIA ‘Detention Network’