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Showing Original Post only (View all)*****BREAKING NEWS***** TRUMP WANTS TO BRING BACK EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION [View all]
WASHINGTON The Trump administration is preparing a sweeping executive order that would clear the way for the C.I.A. to reopen overseas black site prisons, like those where it detained and tortured terrorism suspects before former President Barack 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 George W. 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 detainees in American custody. That would be another step toward reopening secret prisons outside of the normal wartime rules established by the Geneva Conventions, although statutory obstacles would remain.
Mr. Obama tried to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and refused to send new detainees there, but the draft order directs the Pentagon to continue using the site for the detention and trial of newly captured detainees including not just more people suspected of being 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-prisons.html
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 George W. 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 detainees in American custody. That would be another step toward reopening secret prisons outside of the normal wartime rules established by the Geneva Conventions, although statutory obstacles would remain.
Mr. Obama tried to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and refused to send new detainees there, but the draft order directs the Pentagon to continue using the site for the detention and trial of newly captured detainees including not just more people suspected of being 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/cia-detainee-prisons.html
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*****BREAKING NEWS***** TRUMP WANTS TO BRING BACK EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION [View all]
DemocratSinceBirth
Jan 2017
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It matters not if we withdraw, we have not followed it for years now, sadly. n/t
dixiegrrrrl
Jan 2017
#18
I heard on the radio this A.M. that he wants to reopen the black sites around the world
eleny
Jan 2017
#3
We're wearing a heavy yoke around our collective neck and it's only his 1st week in office
eleny
Jan 2017
#8
Of course we didn't. Folks here think torture stopped when Obama became president. nt
m-lekktor
Jan 2017
#15