Royce Lamberth appears to be having a split the baby moment in the Richard Horn suit. As you recall, back in the Clinton era, a DEA official sued the government for illegal spying on him. He alleged that State and CIA conspired to thwart his efforts to cooperate with the Burmese government on drug eradication [...]

The state secrets doctrine was born on the wings of fraud and lies by the US government in the case of US v. Reynolds in 1953. As Congress struggles to rein in the unbridled use of the doctrine to cover up illegality by the Executive Branch (see here, here and here), it is a good [...]

The government has agreed to pay Richard Horn–who was illegally wiretapped when working as a DEA agent in Burma–$3 million to settle his suit.

As predicted, the Administration just settled the state secrets case that was really going to hurt their attempts to preserve the privilege.

Royce Lamberth and Vaughn Walker must have been golfing together recently. Because their rulings on governmental secrecy sound totally alike.

There is a new case causing a stir on the state secrets front today. The case is Horn v. Huddle et. al, is filed in the DC District, and has been quietly going on behind the scenes since 1994. From Del Wilber at the Washington Post:A federal judge has ruled that government officials committed fraud while defending a lawsuit brought by a former DEA agent who accused a CIA operative