Index: Govt policy

Information regarding government policies for torture. Included in this list are the secret memos by Administration lawyers finding ways around international protections against prisoner abuse and torture:

• 02-2006: Republicans in house committee vote down torture investigation
• 02-2006: CIA chief fired for opposing torture
• 12-2005: Bush sidesteps McCain amendment
• 10-2005: US senate approves prohibition of prisoner abuse
• 07-2005: Bush Administration opposes ban on "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" of detainees
• 06-2005: Death chamber planned for Guantanamo Bay
• 05-2005: Kharzai talks with Bush on troops, torture deaths
• 04-2005: US President reiterates commitment not to torture or outsource torture
• 11-2004: Gonzales nominated for United States Attorney General
• 06-2004: Media: 06 March 2003 memos published by Wall Street Journal
• 06-2004: Memo, Murry: Renditions to Uzbekistan
• 06-2004: Pentagon, think-tank screens Saddam torture videos
• 06-2004: Memo, Murry: Renditions to Uzbekistan
• 05-2004: Memo: "gitmoizing abu ghraib"
• 05-2004: FoIA document: leadership knew of prisoner abuse, alleged rape discussed
• 02-2004: Al Qaeda training manual: lie about torture
• 10-2003: Memo (Ricardo Sanchez): Interrogation techniques
• 09-2003: Memo (Ricardo Sanchez): Interrogation techniques, Sanchez later lies about them
• 03-2003: Memo: redefining torture
• 12-2002: Memo: Army lawyers working hard
• 12-2002: Media: stress and duress, renditions, abuse
• 08-2002: Memo, Bybee: a narrow definition of torture
• 06-2002: John Walker Lindh gagged by Michael Chertoff
• 02-2002: Memo: the law of reciprocity, but CIA requests exemption
• 02-2002: White House: Afghan prisoners taken in war are not Prisoners of War
• 01-2002: Memo, Powell: an argument for respecting the Geneva Conventions
• 01-2002: Memo, Yoo: Application of Treaties and Laws to al Qaeda and Taliban Detainees
• 01-2002: Memo, Gonzales: the quaint Geneva Conventions
• 01-2002: Rumsfeld: "unlawful combatants"