The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear the petition of a long-detained terror suspect who’s seeking information about CIA torture at an alleged “black site” abroad in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks.
The justices on Monday took up the case of Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn, better known as Abu Zubaydah, who was the first “War on Terror” detainee subjected to torture abroad by U.S. intelligence, according to the government’s Supreme Court filings.
The Justice Department is challenging a 2019 decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejecting the government’s argument that it can ...
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