Research Catalog

Title

Piercing the veil of secrecy : litigation against U.S. intelligence / Janine M. Brookner.

Author

Brookner, Janine M.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2003.

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Description

xxxiii, 166 p.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Actions and defenses > United States
• Administrative responsibility > United States
• Government liability > United States
• Intelligence service > United States
• State action (Civil rights) > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Problems, Defenses and Exemptions -- Unique Problems Employees Encounter When Suing United States Intelligence -- Methods Used by CIA to Exert Control over Legal Process -- Restricting Employee's Choice of Counsel -- Restricting Employee's Number of Attorneys -- Exploitation of Lawyer's Secrecy Agreement -- Misusing Security and Secrecy to Deny Access to Information, Evidence and Witnesses -- Overly Broad Application of "Sources and Methods" Concept -- Denial of Access to Information and Evidence and State Secrets Privilege -- Denial of Access to Witnesses -- Attempting to Exert Control over Employee's Attorney-Client Information -- Maintaining Special Relationship with Judges in Virginia -- Using Obstructive and Delaying Tactics -- Other Impediments to Attempts to Redress Grievances -- Collusion, Complicity and Reprisals -- Complicity of Inspector General's Office -- Complicity of Office of Medical Services -- Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, As Part of Problem -- False Allegations -- Methods to Prevent Aggrieved Parties from Speaking Out -- Sovereign Immunity -- Contemporary Application of Immunity -- Immunity, As Applied to U.S. Intelligence -- CIA, As Exempted and Partially-Exempted Agency -- Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) -- CSRA--An Exclusive Remedy for Civil Servants -- Unavailability of CSRA to CIA Employees -- Congressional Intentions in Exempting Non-Civil Service Federal Employees from CSRA -- Legal Precedent Indicating Non-Civil Service Federal Employees, Including Those Working for CIA, May Seek Redress in Courts.

ISBN

0890892210

LCCN

^^2003106101

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library