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Secrecy claim stops CIA-DEA bugging case, again
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U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth
Now an update on earlier posts on the case of a former Drug Enforcement Agency officer who accused a Central Intelligence Agency officer of bugging his house back in the nineties:
Devlin Barrett of the Associated Press reported Friday that the case has been stopped again, this time by a Federal appeals court in response to CIA's claims that sensitive national security information would be disclosed if the case moved forward.
In July, Lamberth ruled that CIA had defrauded the court when CIA attorneys knowingly misrepresented CIA officer Arthur Brown as an undercover officer in order to assert the 'state secrets' privilege, and even referred a CIA attorney for disciplinary action.
Last month, US District Court Judge Royce Lamberth, who is presiding over the case, ordered that attorneys representing ex-DEA agent Richard Horn be granted access to classified information so that the case could proceed.
According to AP's Barrett, CIA attorneys again asserted the 'state secrets' privilege in their request to an appeals court to stay the case, but did not use Arthur Brown's undercover status as the reason for using the privilege.
During his presidential campaign, President Obama committed to curtailing use of the 'state secrets' privilege, and a formal review of its use by the Justice Department is already overdue.
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