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Torture

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  1. 2007-01-03 January 3, 2007: FBI Documents Detail Mockery of Detainees’ Religious Beliefs at Guantanamo
  2. 2007-01-10 January 10, 2007: CIA Provides Further Details of Memos Authorizing Detention, Interrogation in ‘Black Sites’
  3. 2007-01-26 January 26, 2007: CIA Chief’s Villa Seized over Kidnapped Imam Affair
  4. 2007-02-11 February 11, 2007: Kidnapped Imam Released in Egypt
  5. 2007-02-11 February 11, 2007: Al-Qaeda Hamburg Cell Member Zammar Is Given 12-Year Sentence in Syria
  6. 2007-02-14 February 14, 2007: Torture Report Sent to CIA General Counsel
  7. 2007-02-16 February 16, 2007: 35 Committed for Trial in Italy over Kidnapped Imam Affair
  8. 2007-03-10 March 10, 2007: KSM Admits to Long List of Plots, Defends Actions at Military Hearing
  9. 2007-03-14 March 14, 2007: House Intelligence Committee Informed of Destruction of CIA Interrogation Tapes in ‘Offhand Comment’
  10. 2007-03-15 March 15-23, 2007 and Shortly After: Media and Terrorism Analysts Respond to KSM Confession with Scepticism
  11. 2007-03-27 March 27, 2007: Abu Zubaida Denies Some Charges against Him, Complains of Torture
  12. 2007-04-01 April 1, 2007: Guantanamo Detainee Bisher Al-Rawi Released, Returns to Britain
  13. 2007-04-15 March 10-April 15, 2007: High Value Detainees Complain of Torture at Guantanamo Bay Hearings
  14. 2007-04-17 April 17, 2007: Former CIA Officer: Agency Knew Terror Suspects ‘Rendered’ to Arab Countries Would be Tortured
  15. 2007-05-14 May 14, 2007: Padilla Trial Begins
  16. 2007-06-04 June 4, 2007: ’Chaos’ in Guantanamo Tribunals as Judge Says ‘Enemy Combatant’ Designation Is Meaningless
  17. 2007-06-07 June 7, 2007: Human Rights Groups Allege Dozens of Prisoners Have Disappeared into Secret US Prisons
  18. 2007-07-20 July 20, 2007: Bush Authorizes Continued ‘Harsh Interrogation’ Practices against Detainees
  19. 2007-08-06 August 6, 2007: KSM’s Interrogations Could Be 90 Percent Unreliable
  20. 2007-08-08 August 8, 2007: Senator Asks Justice Department to Clarify Its Definition of ‘Humane Treatment’ under Geneva Conventions
  21. 2007-08-09 August 9, 2007: 355 Detainees Remain in Guantanamo
  22. 2007-08-09 August 9, 2007: High Value Detainees Ruled Enemy Combatants, Significance Uncertain
  23. 2007-08-15 August 15, 2007: ACLU Releases Army Documents Showing that Flag Officers Refused to Pursue Torture Allegations
  24. 2007-09-13 September 13, 2007: MSNBC Runs Misleading Story about Waterboarding
  25. 2007-09-27 September 27, 2007: Justice Department Official Claims CIA Interrogation Program Fully Compliant with Geneva Conventions
  26. 2007-10-04 October 4, 2007: White House Denies Justice Department Authorized Torture
  27. 2007-10-04 October 4, 2007: Torture Advocate Promoted; Lead Guantanamo Prosecutor Resigns in Protest
  28. 2007-10-06 October 6, 2007: Bush Denies US Tortures Prisoners, Says CIA Interrogations Legal
  29. 2007-10-07 October 7, 2007: Afghan ‘Enemy Combatant’ Jawad Charged with Attempted Murder
  30. 2007-10-11 Before October 11, 2007: CIA Director Launches ‘Unusual’ Investigation of CIA’s Own Inspector General
  31. 2007-10-12 October 12, 2007: Reporter Learns Senior CIA Legal Official Quit over Torture Policies
  32. 2007-10-18 September 19 and October 18, 2007: Moussaoui Prosecutors View Some Surviving CIA Detainee Interrogation Videos
  33. 2007-10-18 October 18, 2007: Lawsuit by Falsely Accused 9/11 Suspect Reinstated
  34. 2007-11-04 November 4, 2007: Judge: Waterboarding Is a Crime
  35. 2007-11-08 November 8, 2007: Michael Mukasey Becomes Attorney General after Close Senate Vote and Waterboarding Controversy
  36. 2007-11-13 November 13, 2007: CIA Claims It Accidentally Lied to Moussaoui Court and Lawyers about Interrogation Videotapes
  37. 2007-11-18 March 2003-November 18, 2007: Two British Detainees Held at Guantanamo; Again Pressured to Work as Informants
  38. 2007-11-18 November 18, 2007-March 6, 2008: British Resident Jamil Al-Banna Finally Freed from Guantanamo
  39. 2007-11-29 November 29, 2007: Japanese Soldiers Tried, Executed for Waterboarding American POWs, McCain Notes
  40. 2007-12-06 December 6, 2007: CIA Pre-empts New York Times Article and Admits Destroying Videos of Detainee Interrogations; Political Outcry Follows
  41. 2007-12-07 December 7, 2007: Legislators with CIA Oversight Say They Did Not Know About Tapes’ Destruction, Contradicting Hayden
  42. 2007-12-07 December 7, 2007: Ex-CIA Officer Suggests Destruction of CIA Videotapes May Not Only Be Related to Torture Allegations
  43. 2007-12-07 December 7, 2007 and Shortly After: Many Inquiries Launched into Destruction of CIA Videos
  44. 2007-12-07 December 7, 2007: Some Commentators Are Skeptical CIA Tape Destruction Is Being Blamed on Single Scapegoat
  45. 2007-12-10 December 10, 2007: Former CIA Officer Admits Agency Used Waterboarding, Calls It Torture but Sometimes Necessary
  46. 2007-12-11 December 11, 2007: Bush Says He Was Unaware of CIA Interrogation Videotapes and Their Destruction
  47. 2007-12-11 December 11-12, 2007: Hayden Backtracks over CIA Tape Destruction Following Appearances Before House and Senate Committees
  48. 2007-12-11 December 11, 2007: CIA Officer Gives Another Interview on Waterboarding, Implicates Justice Department, White House
  49. 2007-12-11 December 11-14, 2007: Some Politicians Support Special Counsel Investigation over CIA Videotape Destruction
  50. 2007-12-14 December 14, 2007: Justice Department and CIA Inspector General Hamper Congressional Probes of CIA Tape Destruction