United States, Petitioner v. Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, aka Abu Zubaydah, et al.

  1. March 03, 2022

    High Court Says Feds Can Shield CIA 'Black Site' Details

    The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the federal government can assert the state secrets privilege over a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's efforts to subpoena information from former CIA contractors about his torture, saying the information could undermine intelligence relationships.

  2. October 26, 2021

    DOD Redactions May Derail Torture Testimony, Justices Told

    Counsel for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner seeking to subpoena information about his torture told the U.S. Supreme Court that the federal government's attempts to curtail the contents of his testimony may undermine a compromise the court tried to broker.

  3. October 18, 2021

    Gov't Tells Justices That Gitmo Detainee Can Discuss Torture

    The federal government told the U.S. Supreme Court that it would allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to testify about his torture, after facing justices' pointed questions about why he hadn't already been allowed to do so in an overseas case related to his efforts to subpoena former CIA contractors.

  4. October 06, 2021

    Gorsuch Questions Feds On Why Gitmo Detainee Can't Testify

    U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch chided the federal government on Wednesday for failing to consider whether a Guantanamo Bay detainee could testify about his own torture and thereby potentially remove the need to decide if testimony from former CIA contractors should be considered a state secret.

  5. October 01, 2021

    Up Next At High Court: State Water Rights, CIA Black Sites

    The U.S. Supreme Court will begin its October 2021 term Monday with Mississippi's lawsuit accusing Tennessee of stealing millions of dollars worth of water, followed by thorny questions about the Sixth Amendment right to cross-examination and whether the government can shield information about CIA black sites.

  6. September 14, 2021

    Gov't Tells Justices CIA State Secrets Claim Wrongly Ignored

    The federal government has told the U.S. Supreme Court that the Ninth Circuit wrongly relied on its own beliefs rather than deferring to the CIA when it issued a ruling that could allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to compel information from former CIA contractors.

  7. August 24, 2021

    CAIR Tells Justices To Back Gitmo Detainee's CIA Subpoena

    The Council on American-Islamic Relations is urging the U.S. Supreme Court to affirm a Ninth Circuit ruling allowing a Guantanamo Bay detainee to subpoena former CIA contractors about his torture in U.S. custody, saying that accepting the government's sweeping state secrets privilege claim would set a dangerous precedent.

  8. August 20, 2021

    Ex-Judges, Others Back Gitmo Detainee In CIA Subpoena Row

    A Guantanamo Bay detainee received a flood of support Friday in his bid to convince the U.S. Supreme Court to allow him to subpoena former CIA contractors about his torture in U.S. custody, with former federal judges, human rights scholars and others rallying against the government's broad view of the state secrets privilege. 

  9. August 19, 2021

    ACLU Urges High Court To Allow CIA Contractor Subpoenas

    The American Civil Liberties Union urged the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to allow a Guantanamo Bay detainee to subpoena former CIA contractors about his torture in U.S. custody, saying that they could be deposed without touching on state secrets.

  10. August 13, 2021

    Gitmo Prisoner Asks Justices To OK CIA Contractor Subpoena

    A Guantanamo Bay detainee urged the U.S. Supreme Court in a brief Friday to allow him to compel testimony from CIA contractors about his torture in U.S. custody, saying he sought only nonprivileged information, not state secrets.