"The United States government just opened the door a crack to justice for the torture of scores of men in CIA custody under its infamous detention and interrogation program. For the first time, the Justice
“The United States government just opened the door a crack to justice for the torture of scores of men in CIA custody under its infamous detention and interrogation program. For the first time, the Justice Department didn’t effectively block a lawsuit by detainees held and tortured by the CIA by invoking, as it had done in previous similar lawsuits, the “state secrets privilege.”
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The privilege requires a court to give great deference to a government claim that litigating a case would risk revealing state secrets that would jeopardize national security….”
See: An Opening for Justice for CIA Torture (HRW, link)