PhotoWASHINGTON — The Trump White House appears to have backed off for now on its consideration of reopening overseas “black site” prisons, where the C.I.A. once tortured terrorism suspects, after a leaked draft executive order prompted bipartisan pushback from Congress and cabinet officials. Elisa Massimino, the president of Human Rights First, who had been among those who criticized the original draft, praised the revisions. The staff members urged the White House to slow down and get input from affected agencies and departments. As BuzzFeed reported, the Trump draft order had lifted verbatim sections from a draft order written in 2012 by policy advisers to the Mitt Romney campaign.

Source: New York Times February 04, 2017 19:08 UTC