salt pit

noun

1. a pit where salt is obtained.

Word History and Origins

Origin of salt pit¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

The CIA flew him from the Balkans to Kabul and threw him incommunicado into a small cell with a bucket for a toilet for four months, in a prison called the “Salt Pit.”

From Reuters

A subject of the U.S. government's extraordinary rendition program, al-Baluchi was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and then transferred to secret CIA prison known both as Cobalt and the Salt Pit north of Kabul, Afghanistan.

From Salon

According to a declassified 2008 report by the CIA inspector general's office, agency officials knew that al-Baluchi no longer posed a terror threat but rendered him to the Salt Pit, where he was subjected to techniques that were approved under the George W. Bush administration's "enhanced interrogation" regimen, as well as unauthorized torture.

From Salon

In it, the prisoner Majid Khan quoted Jose Rodriguez, the former C.I.A. counterterrorism director, as saying in a newspaper article that “mistakes were made” in the operation of a particularly grisly C.I.A. prison known as the Salt Pit.

From New York Times

And one of the agency’s clandestine officers was nearly prosecuted for the 2002 torture death of a detainee at a C.I.A. black site known as the Salt Pit.

From New York Times