CIA Still Has ‘Detention Authority’

By Daniel Halper
Published November 14, 2012 9:02pm ET
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CIA Still Has ‘Detention Authority’
Marc Thiessen reports that, in fact, the CIA still has “detention authority.”   A CIA spokesman recently denied claims the agency was holding prisoners at its Benghazi annex, declaring: The CIA has not had detention authority since January 2009, when Executive Order 13491 was issued. Any suggestion that the Agency is still in the detention […]

Marc Thiessen reports that, in fact, the CIA still has “detention authority.”

 

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