Supreme Court takes up secret CIA black sites in 9/11 detainee's case

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: ABC News

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.

Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, was waterboarded 83 times, spent 11 days in a coffin-size confinement box and was subjected to “walling, attention grasps, slapping, facial holds, stress positions and sleep deprivation,” according to a declassified 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report.

He wants the U.S. government to publicly confirm that Poland was one of the locations of his interrogation and allow depositions of two CIA contractors involved with his treatment through the agency’s controversial rendition, detention and interrogation program, also known as the "torture program."

Zubaydah and his legal team said the information is critical to a case they are pursuing overseas against Polish government officials for alleged complicity in his treatment.



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[bucolic_frolic]

1. Dark secrets don't seem to remain buried very well

Didn't follow those years closely enough to make an informed opinion. However SCOTUS rules, people deserve their day in court, if only because we still have a functioning judicial system.

[bluewater]

2. In other words, he was tortured in our overseas CIA gulag?

Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, was waterboarded 83 times, spent 11 days in a coffin-size confinement box and was subjected to “walling, attention grasps, slapping, facial holds, stress positions and sleep deprivation,” according to a declassified 2014 Senate Intelligence Committee report.

Seems so.

[Miguelito Loveless]

3. This was torture,

and the Kavanaugh Court will sanction it.

[marie999]

4. I found that if you torture someone they will tell you what they think you want to hear.

528th MI intg. unit when stateside Ft. Meade MD

[speaktruthtopower]

5. National Disgrace..

and there more effective techniques than torture to get information.