The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday will wrestle with the limits of the government state secrets privilege in a high-stakes case brought by the first al-Qaida suspect detained and harshly interrogated at a CIA “black site” after Sept. 11, 2001.
attacks, but officials later acknowledged that he was not tied to the operation, according to the 2014 report.
, media reports and other outside investigations -- the American government has never formally confirmed, nor denied, the existence of a black site in Poland or that Zubaydah was held there for five months between 2002 and 2003.The watch tower of"Camp 6" detention facility at the US Naval Station in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, April 8, 2014.
"The two former CIA contractors who devised and implemented the torture program ... have twice testified under oath about what they saw, heard and did at various black sites, including what they did to Abu Zubaydah and some of what they observed at the black site at issue in this litigation," they wrote in court documents."It is undisputed that this testimony contains no state secrets.
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