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6. THE FBI PROTESTS (2 readers)

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

 
 

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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.

 
 

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.

 
 

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.

 
 
 
 
 
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