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Getting Away with Torture
The Bush Administration and Mistreatment of Detainees
Summary
Recommendations
I.
Background: Official Sanction for Crimes against Detainees
II. Torture
of Detainees in US Counterterrorism Operations
The CIA
Detention Program
Secret
Detention Sites
The Case of
Abu Zubaydah
Growth of
the CIA Program
The CIA
Rendition Program
Coercive Interrogations
by the Military
Abuses by
Military Interrogators in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Iraq
Approving
Illegal Techniques for Military Interrogation
Migration of
the Approved Techniques
III.
Individual Criminal Responsibility
The
Illegality of the Underlying Abuses
Forms of
Liability
Waterboarding
Interrogation
Techniques
CIA Secret
Detention Program
OLC Legal
Guidance
Duty to
Investigate and Provide Redress
The Four Key
Leaders
President
George W. Bush
Vice
President Dick Cheney
Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
CIA Director
George Tenet
Other Officials
Appendix:
Foreign State Proceedings Regarding US Detainee Mistreatment
Germany
France:
Complaint against Rumsfeld
Spain:
Investigations of US officials
The
“Bush Six”
Investigation
into Torture by US officials
Diplomatic
Intervention by the United States
Acknowledgments
and Methodology
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