black site

American  

[blak sahyt] / ˈblæk ˈsaɪt /

noun

1. 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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black site British  

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of black site

First recorded in 2005–10

Example Sentences

Navy base that had served earlier as a secret C.I.A. prison, a black site.

From New York Times

In recent decades, US planes have been sent from the base to bomb Afghanistan and Iraq - and it has also reportedly been used as a so-called CIA "black site" - a facility used to house and interrogate terror suspects.

From BBC

As the Feinstein committee's torture report makes clear, CIA personnel present at that black site cabled back to Washington the importance of erasing any information about the nature of Zubaydah's interrogation, implicitly acknowledging just how wrongful his treatment had been.

From Salon

In his order, Colonel McCall granted the doctors access to information about what had happened to Mr. bin al-Shibh during his four years of interrogations in the C.I.A.’s secret “black site” network where prisoners were tortured.

From New York Times

He was the first prisoner of a C.I.A. “black site,” a global network of overseas, secret prisons that held more than 100 men beyond the reach of U.S. law and the International Committee of the Red Cross from 2002 to 2006.

From New York Times