The Supreme Court has blocked torture testimony -- in the name of national security -- sought by a terrorism suspect held in Guantanamo Bay.
Abu Zubaydah, who the government says is a former associate of Osama bin Laden, was subject to"enhanced interrogation techniques" in a CIA detention center abroad and is now being held in Guantanamo Bay. His lawyers want to use the information to hold Polish officials accountable for what Zubaydah says was his unlawful detention and torture in a CIA facility in Stare Kiejkuty, Poland.
The case highlighted continuing terrorism concerns and examined the role courts play balancing national security interests against calls for greater transparency and government accountability.Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan in March 2002 and his lawyers sought to subpoena two CIA contractors, James Mitchell and John Bruce Jessen, who worked on the CIA program.
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