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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-prisons.html?smid=tw-share
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing a sweeping executive order that would clear the way for the Central Intelligence Agency to reopen overseas ”black site" prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects before former President Obama shut them down.
President Trump's three-page draft order, titled ”Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants," and obtained by The New York Times would also undo many of the other restrictions on handling detainees that Mr. Obama put in place in response to policies of the Bush administration.
The draft order does not direct any immediate reopening of C.I.A. prisons or revival of torture tactics, which are now barred by statute. But it sets up high-level policy reviews to make further recommendations in both areas to Mr. Trump, who vowed during the campaign to bring back waterboarding and a ”hell of a lot worse" – not only because ”torture works," but because even ”if it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway."
A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to an email inquiring about the draft order, including when Mr. Trump may intend to sign it. But the order was accompanied by a one-page statement that criticized the Obama administration for having ”refrained from exercising certain authorities" about detainees it said were critical to defending the country from ”radical Islamism."
In their place, Mr. Trump's draft directive order would resurrect a 2007 executive order issued by President George W. Bush. It responded to a 2006 Supreme Court about the Geneva Conventions that had put C.I.A. interrogators at risk of prosecution for war crimes, leading to a temporary halt of the agency's ”enhanced" interrogations program.
http://bigstory.ap.org/514492010670...n=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
A draft executive order shows President Donald Trump asking for a review of America's methods for interrogation terror suspects and whether the U.S. should reopen CIA-run "black site" prisons outside the United States.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing a sweeping executive order that would clear the way for the Central Intelligence Agency to reopen overseas ”black site" prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects before former President Obama shut them down.
President Trump's three-page draft order, titled ”Detention and Interrogation of Enemy Combatants," and obtained by The New York Times would also undo many of the other restrictions on handling detainees that Mr. Obama put in place in response to policies of the Bush administration.
The draft order does not direct any immediate reopening of C.I.A. prisons or revival of torture tactics, which are now barred by statute. But it sets up high-level policy reviews to make further recommendations in both areas to Mr. Trump, who vowed during the campaign to bring back waterboarding and a ”hell of a lot worse" – not only because ”torture works," but because even ”if it doesn't work, they deserve it anyway."
A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to an email inquiring about the draft order, including when Mr. Trump may intend to sign it. But the order was accompanied by a one-page statement that criticized the Obama administration for having ”refrained from exercising certain authorities" about detainees it said were critical to defending the country from ”radical Islamism."
In their place, Mr. Trump's draft directive order would resurrect a 2007 executive order issued by President George W. Bush. It responded to a 2006 Supreme Court about the Geneva Conventions that had put C.I.A. interrogators at risk of prosecution for war crimes, leading to a temporary halt of the agency's ”enhanced" interrogations program.
http://bigstory.ap.org/514492010670...n=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
A draft executive order shows President Donald Trump asking for a review of America's methods for interrogation terror suspects and whether the U.S. should reopen CIA-run "black site" prisons outside the United States.
