Advertisement Continue reading the main storyComplicating matters, in the military commissions system at Guantánamo Bay, defense lawyers for a detainee who was tortured in C.I.A. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyAfter the C.I.A. But the Obama administration had already invoked the privilege in an earlier stage of that dispute when the lawsuit was before a state court. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyThe state secrets privilege became controversial under the Bush administration, which frequently invoked it to block lawsuits related to the C.I.A. Advertisement Continue reading the main storyHowever, Mr. Verrilli put together a more restrictive process for deciding whether to invoke the privilege in the future.

Source: New York Times March 09, 2017 00:16 UTC