Sen. Rockefeller (D-WV) Mulls Secret Prison Shutdown

By KATHERINE SHRADER

WASHINGTON (AP) – The chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee is questioning whether the CIA’s secret prison program – which he fears has become a black eye to the United States – should continue.
The review led by Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., comes as the Bush administration deliberates an executive order, called for by Congress, that will establish new guidelines for the CIA’s system for detaining and interrogating suspected terrorists. It is the agency’s most publicly controversial intelligence collection program.
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