Report: White House Draft Order Seeks Review And Possible Reopening Of CIA ‘Black Site’ Prisons
- 7 years ago
The Trump Administration has reportedly drafted an executive order that calls for a review and possible reopening of CIA ‘black site’ prisons.
The Trump Administration has drafted an executive order that allegedly calls for a review and possible reopening of CIA ‘black site’ prisons, reports the Washington Post.
Such overseas operations, which were used as centers of detention and torture, were shuttered in 2009.
The order reportedly urges those in high-ranking national security posts to, “recommend to the president whether to reinitiate a program of interrogation of high-value alien terrorists to be operated outside the United States and whether such program should include the use of detention facilities operated by the Central Intelligence Agency."
While the document does not suggest torture techniques, like waterboarding, be used at the facilities, it does note that the U.S. has, “refrained from exercising certain authorities critical to its defense,” specifically citing, “a halt to all classified interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency.”
Though a number of extreme interrogation methods have been outlawed by both the U.S. and international governing bodies, President Trump has apparently spoken out in support of them, according to the New York Times.
The media outlet notes that during his campaign he pledged to reinstate not just waterboarding but tactics that are “a hell of lot worse.”
The Trump Administration has drafted an executive order that allegedly calls for a review and possible reopening of CIA ‘black site’ prisons, reports the Washington Post.
Such overseas operations, which were used as centers of detention and torture, were shuttered in 2009.
The order reportedly urges those in high-ranking national security posts to, “recommend to the president whether to reinitiate a program of interrogation of high-value alien terrorists to be operated outside the United States and whether such program should include the use of detention facilities operated by the Central Intelligence Agency."
While the document does not suggest torture techniques, like waterboarding, be used at the facilities, it does note that the U.S. has, “refrained from exercising certain authorities critical to its defense,” specifically citing, “a halt to all classified interrogations by the Central Intelligence Agency.”
Though a number of extreme interrogation methods have been outlawed by both the U.S. and international governing bodies, President Trump has apparently spoken out in support of them, according to the New York Times.
The media outlet notes that during his campaign he pledged to reinstate not just waterboarding but tactics that are “a hell of lot worse.”