High court sides with government in Gitmo state secrets case

The Associated Press ^ | March 3, 2022 | By JESSICA GRESKO

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled for the U.S. government in a case involving a Guantanamo Bay detainee seeking what the government said is secret information.

Abu Zubaydah, who was captured in Pakistan in 2002, was once thought to be a high-ranking member of the terrorist group al-Qaida. Zubaydah was seeking to get the testimony of two former CIA contractors as part of an Polish investigation into his treatment.

Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in an opinion joined by six of his colleagues that the government had argued “Zubaydah’s discovery request could force former CIA contractors to confirm the location of the detention site and that confirmation would itself significantly harm national security interests.”

“In our view, the Government has provided sufficient support for its claim of harm to warrant application of the privilege,” he said.

[Boogieman]

Remember that the government now says anyone who questions the Democrats stealing elections is a terrorist, before you cheer their legal victories in cases like this.

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The Zubeidah case is very important to the Democrats for some reason.

Punching Holes Through The Left’s Talking Points On The Zubaydah Interrogation 4/26/2009, 6:18:03 PM · by Starman417 · 1 replies · 377+ views Flopping Aces ^ | 04-26-09 | Curt Lots of good posts lately from the authors about the interrogation of Zubaydah, the latest being Word's post on the book The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack by Ronald Kessler. To add a few more cents Tom Maguire at Just One Minute has noticed an interesting discrepancy in the tall tale coming from Ali Soufan, a former FBI agent, in which he says: It is inaccurate, however, to say that Abu Zubaydah had been uncooperative. Along with another F.B.I. agent, and with several C.I.A. officers present, I questioned him from March to June 2002,...

Militant cleric (Dr. Hook) had links with al-Qa'eda chiefs, says FBI report 6/24/2003, 8:34:16 PM · by Pokey78 · 6 replies · 370+ views The Telegraph (U.K.) ^ | 06/25/03 | Sean O'Neill Abu Hamza, the militant, London-based Muslim cleric, maintained close contact with the leadership of al-Qa'eda during the years when it operated a worldwide terrorist network from Afghanistan, according to FBI files. Documents obtained by The Daily Telegraph state that Hamza, the former imam of Finsbury Park mosque, north London, dealt personally with Abu Zubeidah, Osama bin Laden's director of operations. Zubeidah, a Palestinian who is now in US custody, communicated bin Laden's instructions and messages from his hideout in Afghanistan to al-Qa'eda cells around the world. Hamza had the power to refer recruits to Zubeidah for "leadership training" in Afghan...

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Maybe it is because he is a Palestinian...