May 28, 2008: DOJ IG Report on Torture
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)
April 22: Pete Hoekstra op-ed about torture briefings
April 23: Ali Soufan, FBI interrogator, publishes NYT op-ed describing early interrogation of Abu Zubaydah
April 23: DOJ announces it will release a number of photos showing detainee abuse that had previously been FOIAed, along with thousands more
April 23: Pelosi press conference describing briefings
April 24: Greg Sargent gets a copy of Cheney’s request for two documents to make his “efficacy” case
April 24: In ACLU FOIA case, Judge Hellerstein orders a more expansive response on torture tape documents from CIA
April 24: WaPo releases JPRA memo–which had been circulated among the torture architects–using the word “torture” and warning that torture will beget false information
April 25: Porter Goss op-ed on torture briefings
May 7: CIA releases torture briefing list
May 18: CIA interrogation index
June 6: NYT publishes Comey emails
June 8: CIA submits Panetta declaration, Vaughn Index (Part One, Part Two)
August 24, 2009: CIA Inspector General Report and OLC documents released (2002-2005; 2006-2009)
August 31, 2009: CIA releases latest Vaughn Index
February 19, 2010: Congress releases OPR Report
Torture Reviews
May 7, 2004: CIA IG Report on Torture
February 14, 2007: International Committee of the Red Cross, Report on Treatment of 14 High Value Detainees
May 28, 2008: DOJ IG Report on Torture
April 22, 2009: Senate Armed Services Committee Inquiry into the Treatment of Detainees in US Custody (Backup to the report)
April 22: Senate Intelligence Committee, Narrative Describing the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel’s Opinions on the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program
February 19, 2010: OPR Report on torture [for searchable copies, go here)
- Memorandum for the Attorney General
- OPR Final Report
- OPR 1st Draft Report
- OPR 2nd Draft Report
- Yoo Response to OPR 2nd Draft
- Yoo Response to OPR Final Draft
- Bybee Response to OPR 2nd Draft
- Bybee Response to OPR Final Draft
- Letter from Mukasey and Filip to Jarrett
- Letter from DOJ to Chairman Conyers
December 13, 2014: Senate Intelligence Committee Report
OLC Memos
August 1, 2002: Yoo Letterto Gonzales
August 1, 2002: Bybee One Memo
August 1, 2002: Bybee Two Memo
March 14, 2003: Yoo DOD Torture Memo
December 30, 2004: Daniel Levin Torture Memo
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 13, 2006: Legal Review of Department of Defense Draft Documents (Appendix M)
Congressional Committee Hearings
June 19, 2007: John Rizzo Confirmation Hearing (SSCI)
February 14, 2008: Steven Bradbury (HJC)
June 17, 2008: Shiffrin, Baumgartner, Ogrisseg, Beaver, Dalton, Mora, Haynes (SASC)
June 18, 2008: Daniel Levin and Lawrence Wilkerson (HJC)
June 26, 2008: David Addington and John Yoo (HJC)
July 15, 2008: Doug Feith (HJC)
July 17, 2008: John Ashcroft (HJC)
September 25, 2008: Moulton, Kleinman (SASC)
