(CNN) — The Justice Department’s decision to invoke the rarely used state secrets privilege in a bid to avoid giving a federal judge details on two deportation flights has opened a complicated new ...

The US Director of National Intelligence has made an extraordinary intervention in a federal court case brought against a top former Saudi intelligence official, invoking the rarely used state secrets ...

The Justice Department asked to intervene against a public-interest group which is suing AT & T for helping the National Security Agency in their warrantless surveillance efforts. The Electronic ...

The George W. Bush administration undermined the rule of law in many ways, but one particularly egregious example was its overuse of the “state secrets privilege.” That’s the legal doctrine government ...

An 11-member en banc panel of the 9th Circuit heard arguments Tuesday in a case brought against a Boeing subsidiary by men who claim to have been abducted and flown to countries to be tortured as part ...