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President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee will face sharp questions from Republican lawmakers this coming week about the work she did as a public defender representing four Guantanamo Bay detainees.

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.

The U.S. government had invoked "state secrets" to block testimony on how prisoners were tortured by the CIA.

The Supreme Court has sided with the U.S. government and dismissed a case involving a Guantanamo Bay detainee seeking what the government said is secret information.

A lawyer for a Guantanamo Bay detainee says the Supreme Court should wait to decide a case involving his client until it’s clear what the Biden administration will let the man say about his torture abroad by the CIA.

The Biden administration says it will allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to provide information to Polish officials about his torture in CIA custody following the 9/11 attacks.

During oral arguments this month, several justices asked whether Abu Zubaydah could testify about his treatment at a CIA detention facility in the early 2000s.

Supreme Court justices asked if the U.S. would allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to testify about his alleged torture and confinement by the CIA.

The case's central issue concerns whether a Guantanamo Bay detainee who has never been charged with a crime can subpoena testimony from the CIA contractors who supervised his torture.

The Supreme Court seems skeptical of requiring the U.S. government to divulge what it says is secret information being sought by a Guantanamo Bay detainee.

Suspect once thought to be al-Qaeda leader wants information on CIA, torture.

The Supreme Court will decide whether a Palestinian man captured in the wake of 9/11 and detained at the prison on the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay can get access to information the government classifies as state secrets.

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.

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.