'Ninth Circuit won't let Guantanamo detainee recoup damages from CIA torture program designers'

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"A man who was tortured at a CIA secret prison and remains imprisoned without charge in Guantanamo Bay can't seek damages from government contractors that designed the torture program ['enhanced interrogation techniques' justified by lawyers John Yoo and Jay Bybee] because federal courts don't have jurisdiction over the treatment of people deemed enemy combatants," reports Sam Ribakoff at Courthouse News Service.

 

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