The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a Guantanamo Bay detainee, the first prisoner in the CIA's infamous 'enhanced interrogation' program, who was seeking secret information shielded by the government about his treatment.
Supreme Court hears Guantanamo Bay prisoner caseThe Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against a Guantanamo Bay detainee, the first prisoner in the CIA's infamous"enhanced interrogation" program, who wasIn anwritten by Justice Stephen Breyer, the majority found the federal government could assert the"state-secrets privilege" to block two former CIA contractors from testifying about whether the spy agency operated a detention facility in Poland in the early 2000s, as well as...
Justices Neil Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor dissented. While Justice Elena Kagan agreed the government met its burden of showing the disclosure would harm national security, she, Gorsuch and Sotomayor disagreed with the majority that the case should be dismissed. Instead, they said the dispute should be sent back to lower courts.
A public report from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2014 on the CIA's torture program identified Zubaydah as the first detainee in the program. According to court filings, he was waterboarded at least 83 times after he was captured in Pakistan, spent more than 11 days in a"coffin-size confinement box" and 29 hours in an"extremely small enclosure."
The U.S. has declassified a substantial amount of information regarding the CIA's interrogation program, including on Zubaydah's treatment while in CIA custody and the interrogation techniques used against him. But the Justice Department warned the identities of foreign intelligence partners and locations of former detention facilities in their country could not be declassified as doing so would harm national security.
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