Supreme Court Asked to Review State Secrets, Torture Case

Binyam Mohamed, a British resident, is among five plaintiffs who claim CIA torture The Supreme Court is being asked to review a lawsuit a lower court had dismissed against a Boeing subsidiary accused of helping the CIA transport detainees to secret foreign prisons where they allegedly were tortured. The appeal to the high court concerns a September decision by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which cited the Obama administration’s evocation of the state secrets privilege as grounds for dismissing the case.

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Supreme Court Asked to Review State Secrets, Torture Case

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