CIA first planned jails abiding by US standards

December 11, 2014 21:23

Just six days after the Sept 11, 2001, attacks, President Bush signed a secret order that gave the Central Intelligence Agency the power to capture and imprison terrorists with Al Qaeda. But the order said nothing about where they should be held or how the agency should go about the business of questioning them.

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