ILLEGAL BREAKING OF GENEVA CONVENTIONS

1. May 5, 2004
   Evidence that senior leadership knew of the torture going on in Iraqi prisons.
   "senior leadership knew of or were aware of the incidents going on at the prison [...]" The report relays two incidents of rape of female detainees. The writer could not say "with any certainty if [redacted] had control over or [sic] the flow of information from the interrogators or if [redacted] was directly somehow in charge of the interrogators..." (Report from the Office of Inspector General)

2. May 15, 2004
   New Yorker Article showing the Bush administration's knowledge and approval of torture policies.
   "According to interviews with several past and present American intelligence officials, the Pentagon’s operation, known inside the intelligence community by several code words, including Copper Green, encouraged physical coercion and sexual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners in an effort to generate more intelligence about the growing insurgency in Iraq. A senior C.I.A. official, in confirming the details of this account last week, said that the operation stemmed from Rumsfeld’s long-standing desire to wrest control of America’s clandestine and paramilitary operations from the C.I.A." (New Yorker, May 24, 2004)
   
3. June 29, 2006
   U.S. Federal Supreme Court Decision

   "The US Supreme Court has ruled that the Bush administration does not have the authority to try terrorism suspects by military tribunal. Justices upheld the challenge by Osama Bin Laden's ex-driver to his trial at Guantanamo, saying the proceedings violated Geneva Conventions." (Court Decision pdf) (BBC, June 29, 2006)