The Supreme Court has shut down efforts by a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, known as Abu Zubaydah, to obtain information from two former C.I.A. contractors involved in torturing him, ruling that the inquiry would impermissibly expose state secrets, reports the New York Times. While Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, saying the government sought to avoid “further embarrassment for past misdeeds,” including more than 80 waterboarding sessions, hundreds of hours of live burial and what it calls “rectal rehydration.” Zubaydah sought to subpoena the contractors, James E. Mitchell and Bruce Jessen, in connection with a Polish criminal investigation prompted by a determination by the European Court of Human Rights that he had been tortured in 2002 and 2003 at secret sites operated by the C.I.A., including one in Poland.
Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr., who supported the motion, ruled that Zubaydah’s attorney’s pursuit of information into his client’s treatment while imprisoned “would inevitably tend to confirm or deny whether the C.I.A. operated a detention site located in Poland,” and that the executive branch was entitled to even more deference than the majority had given it. Justice Elena Kagan, in a partial dissent in the case, said she agreed that the location of the black site must be protected but said the case could nonetheless proceed.
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Seems as though the laws written should have one ruling.
Seems unjust when a judge judges, then another judge judges the other judge unjust.
Supreme court ruling should be ALL judges agreeing to one ruling.
That is SUPREME