Worries rise anew that US could revive torture
President Donald Trump's advocacy of waterboarding and the promotion of a CIA official who once led brutal interrogations have raised concerns that the United States could yet resume torturing suspects in its fight against Islamist extremists. Last week the leaked draft of a White House executive order detailed a desire to reopen CIA "black sites" used in so-called enhanced interrogations in the early 2000s and to ease tough restrictions on interrogation techniques set by former president Barack Obama. On Thursday, the Central Intelligence Agency announced that Gina Haspel would become the agency's deputy director, answering to new director Mike Pompeo.