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On December 12, 2007, the ACLU filed a motion asking a federal judge to hold the CIA in contempt, charging that the agency flouted a court order when it destroyed at least two videotapes documenting the harsh interrogation of prisoners in its custody. More >>
April 2008
4/1/2008 - A secret memo authored by the Department of Justice (DOJ) asserting that President Bush has unlimited power to order brutal interrogations to extract information from detainees was declassified today as a result of an American Civil Liberties Union Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. The memo, written by John Yoo, then a deputy at the DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC), was sent to the Defense Department in March 2003.
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January 2007
1/10/2007 - CIA declaration purporting to explain why it cannot publicly disclose August 1, 2002 OLC interrogation techniques memo and President Bush directive regarding CIA overseas detention facilities.
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1/10/2007 - DOD declarations purporting to explain why it cannot publicly disclose numerous documents relating to prisoner abuse.
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1/2/2007 - Documents obtained from the FBI detail 26 eyewitness accounts by agents of detainee abuse, 17 of which the Bureau apparently chose not to investigate further.
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July 2006
Department of Defense documents show Pentagon
silence led to prisoner abuses (7/10/2006)
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June
2006
Department of Defense documents show suicide attempts in Guantanamo in 2002; Formica report; Jacoby report (6/15/2006)
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May 2006
Army Documents Show Senior Official Reportedly Pushed Limits on Detainee Interrogations; New Evidence that Government Knew Abuse was Widespread Before Abu Ghraib Photos (5/2/2006)
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February 2006
Further Evidence Senior Officials Approved Abuse of Prisoners: FBI memo details Guantánamo commander’s repeated refusal to abandon illegal and ineffective interrogation techniques (2/23/2006)
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January 2006
Documents show that the Army received reports of detainee abuse as early as January 2002 (1/12/2006)
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November 2005
Documents released by the Department of Justice Executive Office of US Attorneys (11/9/2005)
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