The Torture Document Dump Timeline - by emptywheel

[TacticalPeek]

The Torture Document Dump Timeline
By: emptywheel Saturday April 25, 2009 12:04 pm

John Lopresti noted that it might be helpful to have a timeline of all the torture documents released in the last several weeks. And you know I can't resist requests for timelines. So here goes:

April 6: NYRB posts the Red Cross report on high value detainees

April 9: CIA Director Leon Panetta bans contractors from conducting interrogations

April 16: Obama statement on memo release, torture memos released:

* August 1, 2002: Memo from Jay Bybee, Assistant Attorney General, OLC, to John A. Rizzo, General Counsel CIA
* May 10, 2005: Memo from Steven Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General, OLC, to John A. Rizzo, General Counsel CIA <"Techniques">
* May 10, 2005: Memo from Steven Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General, OLC, to John A. Rizzo, General Counsel CIA <"Combined">
* May 30, 2005: Memo from Steven Bradbury, Acting Assistant Attorney General, OLC, to John A. Rizzo, General Counsel CIA

April 21: Senate Armed Services Committee releases declassified Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in US Custody

April 22: Senate Intelligence Committee releases declassified Narrative Describing the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel's Opinions on the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program (Jello Jay's statement on the release)


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[tekisui]

1. knr!~ The only piece I see missing is the Spanish Courts involvement

with the Gonzo 6.

[myrna minx]

2. Interesting. K&R n/t

[TacticalPeek]

3. Somewhere the neocons are squirming:

4. The Government shall produce documents relating to the destruction of the tapes, which describe the persons and the reasons behind their destruction, from a period reasonably longer than April through December 2002.

SO ORDERDED.
Alvin K. Hellerstein
United States District Judge
April 20, 2009

http://www.aclu.org/images/torture/asset_upload_file811_39459.pdf

[Senator]

4. K&R

[kentuck]

5. Interesting that they were able to get an acting Asst. Atty-General.....

to write most of the memos...Steven Bradbury??