black site
a location that is never publicly acknowledged as existing, where secret military and defense operations, including the detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists, are conducted out of reach of the law and normal systems of oversight:Thailand was likely the first country to host a CIA black site, where suspected 9/11 terrorists were detained.
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How to use black site in a sentence
That black site program is once again at the center of controversy for the CIA.
He shut the remaining CIA black site prisons in Europe, and handed over high-value Iraqi detainees to the Iraqi courts.
British Dictionary definitions for black site
a secret facility used by a country's military as a prison and interrogation centre, whose existence is denied by the government
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