Supreme Court says state secrets doctrine protects disclosure of ‘black site’ locations in torture allegation case
But Breyer said the United States has never officially acknowledged a black site in a particular country, and there was reason for that. Thomas countered the somewhat sympathetic treatment Abu Zubaida received in Gorsuch’s dissent. “Abu Zubaydah is a terrorist” and an “al Qaeda-associated senior operative engaged in active hostilities against the United States,” Thomas wrote. He planned to wage war against the United States by planting remotely operated bombs in various public locations.”. Story continues below advertisementJustice Elena Kagan agreed with Breyer that the United States had an interest in not officially disclosing black site locations, but disagreed with dismissing the case.
washingtonpost.comWaterboarding of detainees was so gruesome that even CIA officials wept
The first person to be subjected to the method was Abu Zubaydah, an Al Qaeda functionary and the first so-called high-value detainee captured after 9/11. He testified that waterboarding was a step in a process; he urged the end of it for Abu Zubaydah because it had served its purpose. For example, he says that the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah helped the CIA locate Ramzi Binalshibh, one of Mohammeds fellow defendants. Joseph Margulies, a law professor at Cornell University who once represented Abu Zubaydah, said the brutal methods helped numb America to wrongdoing. In at least one of the instances, the information thought to be classified a CIA officers name can be discovered in a simple Google search.
latimes.comNew details: Abu Zubaydah interrogation
New details: Abu Zubaydah interrogation The newly released Senate report on CIA interrogation techniques details the interrogation of Abu Zubaydah, a Saudi Arabian citizen held in Guantanamo Bay. CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin joins "CBSN" with more.
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