Mealey's ( May 5, 2025, 9:11 AM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the United States and two FBI personnel (government, collectively) filed a petition for rehearing en banc with the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, asking it to reconsider an “unorthodox” procedure a panel adopted that would permit a court to consider information covered by the state secrets privilege rather than fully excluding such information from a case entirely....