Judge Again Refuses To Throw Away Torture Suit Against CIA Contractors

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He also noted that none of the three former detainees who sued them was officially deemed an enemy combatant. In a first-of-its-kind ruling last April, U.S. Senior District Judge Justin Quackenbush had already greenlighted the civil lawsuit against the contractors, who are credited with developing the George W. Bush-era torture program detailed in a scathing Senate intelligence report made public in 2014. The Obama administration abandoned the use of torture in 2009, but it also successfully blocked efforts to hold accountable the CIA and government officials who rationalized its use and implemented it during the Bush years. ?There have been so many cases brought by torture victims ... and not one of them has been able to go forward, for shameful reasons,? the ACLU?s Hina Shamsi told reporters in April, the first time the case was allowed to proceed. ?This is a very big deal for our clients.?Suleiman Abdullah Salim, Mohamed Ahmed Ben Soud and Gul Rahman were identified as victims in the executive summary of the Senate torture report, and their case against the CIA contractors relies largely on public information from the report.