Avril Haines, the new director of national intelligence. Claire Harbage/NPR
CNN: US intelligence chief intervenes to block state secrets in Saudi Crown Prince's feud with former Saudi official
Washington (CNN)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 privilege to stop classified information from coming out that could cause "exceptionally grave" harm to US national security.
The declaration by Director Avril Haines was submitted on Friday to the Massachusetts District Court and says it is "based upon my own knowledge" of what could be revealed in the civil case brought by a state-owned Saudi holding company against former Saudi counterterrorism official Saad Aljabri, who claims Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince has tried to kill him and whose children are being held in the Kingdom.
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WNU Editor: Those documents must be very sensitive for the US Director of National Intelligence to intervene in this class.
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