Category: Cases

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• Ninth Circuit contractor ruling (2025) — Approximately July 2025 U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruling, in a case brought by Abu Zubaydah against CIA contractors who had tortured him, holding that contractors operating under a written CIA contract are legally protected as agents of the agency; extends Executive Order 12333 authority to contractor operations including the Blackwater assassination program; received almost no U.S. media coverage.