The Trump administration wants to study whether to get the CIA back
in the business of capturing and interrogating terrorists overseas, a
program launched after 9/11 that President Obama banned because it
involved the use of what most people consider torture.
A draft executive order, posted by the
Washington Post and confirmed by NBC News, calls for the government to
study whether the CIA can resume detaining suspects at so-called "black
sites," a program initiated by George W. Bush that Obama banned when he
took office. Black sites are secret overseas detention facilities where
suspects are interrogated.
The draft also calls for a review of
interrogation techniques laid out in the U.S. Army Field Manual, which
prohibits torture and is currently the standard by which American
interrogators must operate, the officials said. The review would examine
whether tougher techniques could be effective.
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