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Familiar with, 9/11 families and the state secrets privilege. and i want to just say i was encouraged and pleased when president biden issued executive order requiring department of justice to complete review of documents sought by 9/11 survivors. they are in court now taking advantage of the overwhelmingly approved measure that gives if the courts jurisdiction over their claims for the harm they suffered when their loved ones were killed during the 9/11 attack. i was glad to see that the f.b.i. has released at least one document on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 deaths. i still am focused o...

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Say and what they couldn't. but the surprising turn in this, hallie, was that three supreme court justices, stephen breyer, neil gorsuch, and sonia so so toe sonia sotomayor, will the government make him available. justice sotomayor said we want a clear answer. bryan fletcher, the acting attorney general, said that's not my decision to make. abu zubaydah has been under defense department control and his lawyers say in essence he's being held incommunicado. >> pete, talk about some of the bigger picture pieces of this depending on which way this goes. >> the case is about the state secrets priv...

Revealing something would harm national security, that basically should be the end of the matter. not quite that extreme, but that's just about what the government's position is. the lawyers on the other side say, no, judges ought to be able to make these decisions, they ought to weigh, what's the government's interest in keeping something secret, what's the need for it on the other hand by the person who is trying to keep it. the fact is the state secrets privilege has very little been discussed by the supreme court. so this case could be an important one for deciding how it's going to be use...