Supreme Court to hear appeal of Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah over interrogation, detention

Oral arguments on the appeal are set to be heard by the high court this fall after the Ninth Circuit appeals court denied state secret protection to the architects of the CIA’s controversial torture program.

The court announced the slating of arguments on Monday. The CIA argues that revealing the identities of the program’s creators and allowing access to them poses a national security threat. The appeals court described the CIA interrogation program on the American military base in Cuba – which engaged in waterboarding, a technique that simulates the feeling of drowning – as "torture."