Supreme court blocks men behind CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ from testifying

The case was filed by Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo prisoner arrested and held without charge since 2002, in Poland

Two psychologists who devised the CIA's post-9/11 system of US enhanced interrogation", which has been widely denounced as torture, cannot be called to testify in a case in Poland brought by a terrorism suspect subjected to the abuses, the supreme court has ruled.

In a 6-3 ruling on Thursday, the court allowed the US government to block the psychologists from giving evidence in a case brought by Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo prisoner who was arrested in 2002 and has been held without charge ever since. The majority of the justices granted the government the privilege of state secrets" - a power that prevents the public disclosure of information deemed harmful to national security.