25-01-2017 19:42 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Trump could reinstate CIA's secret 'black site' prisons - U.S. officials

By Jonathan Landay and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to order a review that could lead to the reinstatement of a CIA programme to hold terrorist suspects in secret overseas "black site" prisons that used interrogation techniques often condemned as torture, two U.S. officials said on Wednesday. The black sites were used to detain suspects who were captured in the "war on terrorism" launched by former President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001
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