Supreme Court blocks torture testimony sought by terrorism suspect held in Guantanamo Bay

[Jose Garcia]

Source: CNN

(CNN)The Supreme Court said Thursday that the US government can -- in the name of national security -- shield the testimony of two former government contractors from a terrorism suspect who seeks to use the information in a criminal proceeding abroad.

Abu Zubaydah, who the government says is a former associate of Osama bin Laden, was subject to "enhanced interrogation techniques" in a CIA detention center abroad and is now being held in Guantanamo Bay.

His lawyers want to use the information to hold Polish officials accountable for what Zubaydah says was his unlawful detention and torture in a CIA facility in Stare Kiejkuty, Poland.

The court's opinion could restrict access to materials, discovery or testimony in future cases that the government claims should be protected by a so-called "states secret" privilege meant to protect national security.


Read more: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/03/03/politics/supreme-court-zubaydah/index.html

[Tactical Peek]

1. We appear to have become ruled by men, not laws.

White men actually, wouldn't you know it?

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

2. Yeah. The government doesn't want people to know that it acted illegally. n/t