*****BREAKING NEWS***** TRUMP WANTS TO BRING BACK EXTRAORDINARY RENDITION

[DemocratSinceBirth]

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 Trump’s 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. Obama’s 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

[Arkansas Granny]

1. Let's call it what it really is - torture.

I suppose that next he'll want to withdraw from the Geneva Convention.

[dixiegrrrrl]

18. It matters not if we withdraw, we have not followed it for years now, sadly. n/t

[Tanuki]

2. See this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028534614

[eleny]

3. I heard on the radio this A.M. that he wants to reopen the black sites around the world

Is our only hope that the other countries refuse? I hope they can and do.

Btw, I heard it on Stephanie Miller's morning program.

[nolabear]

4. I just heard it on MSNBC. What a cruel fuck he is. Expect nothing good.

[eleny]

8. We're wearing a heavy yoke around our collective neck and it's only his 1st week in office

[thejoker123]

5. Trump needs a 9-11, so they'll do everything to provoke one

[workinclasszero]

12. Bingo

Somebody gets it.

[anarch]

6. hardly breaking news...wasn't that a campaign promise?

I fully expect U.S. citizens who oppose the fascist agenda to be rounded up and tortured, too.

Just after the election I was talking to an acquaintance who is a so-called "libertarian"...I assume he voted for Johnson...he was trying to, as he said, "cheer people up" by looking at the bright side, trying to be optimistic, downplaying the ridiculous campaign promises, etc. In the midst of a "it's all just partisan bullshit, everything will be OK" kind of conversation, I think I said something along the lines of "well, it's not like I unequivocally approve of everything Obama's done...I have very serious issues with the whole drone warfare thing, for instance." He replied, "well hopefully the new administration will turn that around," to which I said "OMG you're RIGHT! He'll probably start using the drones to attack people in the U.S. who oppose him!!" At the time, I was just being snarky...now, I won't be at all surprised if that actually happens.

[Generator]

9. Hell he wants to torture innocent family members

did anyone pay attention? (I know most here did). And yeah Pence is just as bad. NOT. There are degrees of horror. Scumbag Trump is a Saddam wannabee.

[alllove]

14. If you watched the debate he said kill them

He's demented and was called on it by Bush.

Bush said they won't follow illegal orders by you.

The scary thing is Trump said yes they will and I'm scared to say some will,

[hollowdweller]

10. For gov't employees and the media?

[2naSalit]

13. After a point, early on I'd imagine,

it won't matter... the only common denominator will be loyalty to the orange one.

[alllove]

11. I don't believe for 1 minute we ever closed all our black sites over seas

[m-lekktor]

15. Of course we didn't. Folks here think torture stopped when Obama became president. nt

[lpbk2713]

16. Who presented him with this idea?

He's too stupid to think of it all by himself.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. That Kelly guy...ex-general, I think.

Taht kind of macho thinking attracts the dark forces to him.

[Victor_c3]

17. American carnage

That is what popped in my head when I read this.

[malaise]

19. Don't prettify TORTURE

That's what he wants to bring back

[Lucinda]

21. KNR