FBI, Agents To 9th Circuit: State Secrets Privilege Bars Muslim Surveillance Suit

Mealey's (October 13, 2022, 10:25 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — In a pair of supplemental briefs filed on remand after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and a group of FBI agents ask the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to affirm a trial court’s dismissal of religious discrimination and other constitutional claims alleged in connection with the bureau’s surveillance of domestic Muslim communities, arguing that the state secrets privilege defeats such claims....