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Originally Posted by valo403
The privilege is basically that any discussion of the events at issue would compromise state secrets, so the identity of the person wouldn't really matter. The claim would obviously be based upon incidents that ocurred under CIA command, which I assume would be highly confidential. I assume that the argument was something along the lines of 'if he presents these facts we'll have to present other facts to defend ourselves, and those facts would compromise the state in x manner'.
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I disagree. In the case where you kidnap an unrelated person, there is no necessity to divulge state secrets in order to admit guilt.
Nobody says that the government has to divulge everything they knew about Al-Masri, and then say that El-Masri isn't Al-Masri.