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 Trumps 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. Obamas 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
itcfish
(1,828 posts)Will not allow that.
IronLionZion
(45,705 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)He is already planning on using the US military as a protection racket
Lochloosa
(16,097 posts)dalton99a
(81,750 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)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.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)...at violating human rights.
Initech
(100,180 posts)wisteria
(19,581 posts)What an ugly, vile man-child.
SticksnStones
(2,108 posts)"And I'm Proud to be an American..."
Sigh. Not so much. Not with this executive order.
MountCleaners
(1,148 posts)....because of this crap.
Grins
(7,291 posts)The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. Its over. It supplies the world with it's nightmares now." - Novelist J.G. Ballard.
LudwigPastorius
(9,312 posts)* Make America Gag and torture Again
LiberalLovinLug
(14,187 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Where are Greenwald, Snowden, Assange, Scahill, etc on this?? Where are all my "Trump and Clinton are 100% the same" alt-lefties?
And how will they spin it to still make it Hillary/Obama's fault somehow?
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