Tortures

White House moves away from plan for CIA ‘black site’ prisons

The Trump administration is backing away from its plan to revisit using the CIA to imprison and interrogate terrorism suspects, according to a revised executive order on detention policy that has been shared with senior officials.

A new version of the order has stripped out provisions contained in a previous draft that called for top officials to evaluate whether the CIA should once again operate so-called “black site” prisons and have renewed authority to use coercive interrogation methods, according to a U.S. official and a second person who have been briefed on the matter.

The changes appear to reflect a retreat from a proposal that faced an immediate backlash from members of Congress and some officials in Trump’s administration when a draft of the order was publicly revealed last month.