Trump Poised to Lift Ban on C.I.A. 'Black Site' Prisons
Source: New York Times
By CHARLIE SAVAGEJAN. 25, 2017
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.
If Mr. Trump signs the draft order, he would also revoke Mr. Obama’s directive to give the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all wartime detainees in American custody – another step toward reopening secret prisons outside of the normal wartime rules established by the Geneva Conventions.
And while Mr. Obama tried to close the Guantánamo prison and refused to bring new detainees there, the draft order directs the Pentagon to continue using the facility “for the detention and trial of newly captured” detainees – including not just more suspected members of Al Qaeda or the Taliban, like the 41 remaining detainees, but also Islamic State detainees. It does not address legal problems that might raise.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-prisons.html?_r=0
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Republicans have been projecting the idea of detention camps onto the popular President Obama for 8 years. Ha ha. Now they are likely to implement them themselves to round up 'dissedent' citizens who try to preserve American democracy.
I'd bet a leaky bucket of Dippin Dots on it.
