Lawfare No Bull: Supreme Court Hears Abu Zubaydah

Hadley Baker
Thursday, October 14, 2021, 1:09 PM

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Today on Lawfare No Bull: The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments last Wednesday in a case testing the limits of public disclosure about the CIA's secret torture program after the Sept. 11 attacks. The central issue of the case concerns whether a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who has never been charged with a crime can subpoena testimony from the CIA contractors who supervised his torture. Abu Zubaydah was the first prisoner held by the CIA to undergo extensive torture:

 

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Hadley Baker was an Assistant Editor of Lawfare. She is a recent graduate from the University of St Andrews, studying English literature and Spanish. She was previously an intern at Lawfare.

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