Trump delays plans to revive torture techniques

Published January 26, 2017 3:50am ET



President Trump has been consulting members of his Cabinet and senior intelligence officials to determine whether the U.S. should bring back torture and enhanced interrogation techniques.

Trump was expected to release an executive order on Wednesday that would have lifted the ban on overseas CIA prisons and revived enhanced interrogation methods that had been banned early on in his predecessor’s administration.

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