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1. A SOLDIER IN AFGHANISTAN WITNESSES TORTURE (1 reader)

The sworn statement of an interpreter at the Kandahar detention facility in Afghanistan, February 13, 2002.

 
 

2. THE CIA’S BLUEPRINT FOR RENDITION AND INTERROGATION (1 reader)

A classified CIA memo describing its Rendition, Detention, and Interrogation program, December 30, 2004.

 
 

3. IN THEORY AND IN PRACTICE (2 readers)

The August 1, 2001 legal memo from the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel approving the use of 10 “enhanced interrogation techniques” on Abu Zubaydah, read side-by-side with Zubaydah’s first-hand account of his interrogation in a secret CIA prison.

 
 

4. PRESIDENT BUSH DENOUNCES TORTURE (1 reader)

A statement from George W. Bush commemorating the U.N.’s International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, June 26, 2004.

 
 

5. MISTAKENLY RENDERED TO TORTURE (1 reader)

The account by Khaled el-Masri, an innocent victim of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program, December 18, 2005.

 
 

6. THE FBI PROTESTS (2 readers)

FBI emails reporting abuses by military interrogators at Guantánamo Bay between October 2002 and July 2004.

 
 

7. GUANTANAMO’S “SPECIAL PROJECT” (2 readers)

The minute-by-minute log of the interrogation of Mohammed al-Qahtani at Camp X-Ray, Guantánamo Bay, November 2002 to January 2003.

 
 

8. GEORGE TENET ON 60 MINUTES: WE DON’T TORTURE (2 readers)

The transcript of former CIA Director George Tenet’s interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, April 29, 2007.

 
 

9. MANNER OF DEATH: HOMICIDE (3 readers)

Excerpts from autopsy reports of detainees held in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan, December 2002 to November 2004.

 
 

10. GUANTANAMO JUSTICE: A DETAINEE’S HEARING (3 readers)

The Combatant Status Review Tribunal of Guantánamo detainee Mustafa Ait Idr, Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, October 11, 2004.

 
 

11. THE REPENTANT PROSECUTOR (1 reader)

The declaration of Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, former lead prosecutor in the military commission case of teenaged detainee Mohammed Jawad, January 12, 2009.

 
 
 
 
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