Torture suit tossed for security’s sake
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From Times Wire Reports
The danger that state secrets could be revealed outweighs a German man’s claims that the CIA tortured him in an Afghan prison, a federal appeals court ruled in Richmond in refusing to reinstate his lawsuit.
The three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed a lower court’s dismissal of Khaled el-Masri’s lawsuit against former CIA Director George Tenet and others.
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