The CIA-White House Rendition & Torture Program (In The Beginning)

Immediately after the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began pressuring the Bush White House to start conducting measures that would witness draconian rules of law regarding how to fight against terrorism and implementing a harsher rendition program. Bush would acquiesce to most of the demands of the intelligence agencies, especially the CIA. Having White House lawyers draft an "enhanced interrogation" program which would later constitute as torture in the US Supreme Courts.

The White House also set up a "kill list" of suspected members of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups which was supported by the CIA, as well as having foreign countries, known for their terrible human rights, conduct the torture methods that the US couldn't conduct. In the preceding months, Bush and Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, will later authorize the use of torture while denying detainees basic human rights afforded to them under the Geneva Conventions.