Senate Intel Chairman Mulls Closing Secret CIA Prisons

Senate Intel Chairman Mulls Closing Secret CIA Prisons

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, a West Virginia Democrat, 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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