Supreme Court upholds government's claim of secrecy in case of prisoner tortured by CIA
by David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times
Mar 03, 2022
3 minutes
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the government may invoke the “state secrets” privilege to block former U.S. contractors from testifying about the now well-known waterboarding and torture of prisoners held at CIA sites in Poland.
By a 6-3 vote, the justices said the U.S. government can claim a privilege of secrecy even if there is no secret.
“We agree with the government that sometimes information that has entered the public domain may nonetheless fall within the scope of the state secrets privilege,” Justice Stephen G. Breyer
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