"Black Sites"? Waterboarding? Torture? Quo Vadis, CIA?

From The Washington Post:

Yesterday the New York Times broke the news that the Trump Administration has drafted a memo ordering the CIA to review the possibility of again using "black site" prisons overseas and modifying the agency's interrogation tactics, presumably to allow methods considered torture. So we asked Post national security Greg Miller: Does the CIA even want to return to the days of black sites and so-called "enhanced interrogation?"

"The CIA has little if any interest in going back into the business of detaining and interrogating terrorism suspects. Many regard that period as one of the most regrettable chapters in the agency’s history. We’ve learned a lot of gruesome details about the program — “rectal feeding,” prisoners foaming at the mouth, convulsing — that agency people simply find repulsive.

"Then there is the ongoing institutional cost, the cumulative toll of years of criminal, congressional and even internal investigations. The price was pretty high. There will always be hardline defenders, but my sense is that they are vastly outnumbered."