Former DEA Agent Reaches Tentative Settlement in CIA Case

Source: WaPo

By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 1, 2009; 3:28 PM

A tentative settlement has been reached in a lawsuit brought 15 years ago by a former DEA agent who accused a CIA operative of illegally bugging his home.

In a court filing late Wednesday, lawyers for the government and the Drug Enforcement Administration agent said they "had reached an agreement in principle to settle the underlying litigation." A final agreement could be ironed out by late October, they said.

The lawsuit, brought by Richard A. Horn, accused the CIA of illegally bugging his residence in Rangoon, Burma, when he was stationed there. He alleged that portions of a private phone call were used as an excuse to oust him from that job. Horn, 63, filed suit in 1994. His case has meandered through the court system since.

In July, the case drew some publicity after a federal judge accused the CIA of committing fraud in the case.

The proposed settlement comes after the government appealed a ruling in August by the judge, Royce C. Lamberth, that granted attorneys for Horn and government officials access to classified information.

Better article on this issue: http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/10/doj-proposed-settlement-reached-in-state-secrets-suit-in-dc.html

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/01/AR2009100103373.html?hpid=moreheadlines

They were probably making sure he wasn't looking at their routes.

just protecting their routes, like any self-respecting crime
syndicate would.

but to imagine fraud?
its so stupid when bribery, kidnapping, rendition, torture,
and extortion are all available and so simple.
Its just so shocking that they would resort to such pathetic tactics.

my god, our CIA is a bunch of sniveling whimps.

after every hearing.

on the one hand he was appointed by Reagan and "Judge Lamberth was appointed by Chief Judge Rehnquist to be the Presiding Judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court on May 19, 1995. His appointment ended on May 19, 2002"

Also, during the Clinton years he issues lots of anti whitehouse rulings.. I hated him at the time. But, it turns out that he is more of a individual vs. the gov't sort of right-winger and has issued tons of rulings like this on behalf of people screwed by the government. He has made some rulings favorable to Native Americans, too.