Tag: CIA Torture Program

NOVANEWS By Laura Durkay Socialist Worker  Days after Donald Trump took office, the New York Times and Washington Post obtained a copy of a draft executive order aimed at reopening CIA "black site" prisons and reauthorizing the set of torture techniques approved by the Bush administration in the aftermath of 9/11. While the draft order doesn't explicitly give the go-ahead for either new black sites or torture, it would order a "review" of detention and interrogation policy, with the potential of reversing some of the modest restrictions put in place by the Obama administration. The order also contains language about keeping the prison at Guantánamo open, halting the transfer of any detainees out of the facility and possibly admitting new ones, and continuing military tribunals ...