Horn v. United States (Civil Litigation) event
also: Horn's civil litigation, illegal eavesdropping lawsuit, Horn's civil case, Horn's lawsuit
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U.S. State Departmentorganization · 6CIAintelligence service · 5Richard Hornperson · 5Burmacountry · 3Franklin Huddle Jr.person · 3Unknown Book (Chapter 9/10)book · 2Paul Forsterperson · 2United Statescountry · 2Brian Laytonperson · 2DEAintelligence service · 2Royce Lamberthperson · 2Washington, D.C.place · 1Arthur Brownperson · 1
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I'm really excited about it, if you can't tell. Okay, part three is called Turf War. And it starts out in August of 2009 in Washington, D.C. in a federal court where it was revealed that State Department Special Agent Paul Forster, then suf…
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health problems was slated at some future date to testify for DEA agent Richard Horn in a long-pending illegal eavesdropping lawsuit. Horn's civil litigation implicated a CIA station chief and a State Department official. In the court plead…
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After being removed from his post, Horn filed litigation in federal court in 1994, accusing top officials within the CIA and State Department in Burma of violating his Fourth Amendment rights. The protection against unreasonable searches an…
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countless times when DEA operation plans have been foiled by the quote-unquote listeners without DEA ever even knowing it happened, unquote. What really happened in Horn's case is not supposed to have come out if the government had its way.…
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Specifically, key pieces of evidence to federal IG reports that centered on Horn's accusations were determined by the court to be protected from disclosure based on something called state secrets privileges, i.e. national security. That pri…
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on a dime. Quote, having determined the state secrets privilege bars disclosure of IG reports in certain attachments, the case cannot continue and must be dismissed. Unquote. That was written by U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth in J…
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private residence is also referenced in the judge's sealed ruling. In fact, the ruling states that they surfaced in the IG reports and that it had since been cloaked under state secret privileges. This is a statement, a quote from the rulin…
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Quote, Horn's allegations regarding the handling of the DEA document was the subject of an IG report that the court determined on August 15, 2000, to be protected from disclosure by state secret privileges. Horn further argues that the purp…
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Horn alleges that Huddle sought his removal from Burma as retaliation for Horn sending reports to congressmen that conflicted with State Department reports prepared by Huddle. Horn supports his accusation of wiretapping with the contents of…
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add this last little part. One DEA source summed up the danger of the government's continued expansion this way. Quote, illegal eavesdropping the centerpiece of Horn's civil case is also a criminal offense. An analogy of the government's po…
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disclosed. Moreover, the station chief would not be able to defend himself without using classified information. Therefore, the state secret's privilege kicks in and the case disappears. This theoretical stretch of privilege is not unlike w…
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It is apparent that the state secret's privilege was expanded and evolved in such a way that it effectively immunizes persons and agencies of crimes and other misconduct. It no longer just protects troop movements, satellite images. It now …
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Trump card, in the Horn case, the state secret's privilege has been used to immunize people and agencies from wrongdoing, which is a far cry from what the U.S. Constitution intended. Unquote. The U.S. Constitution didn't intend for us to ha…
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Former DEA agent Richard Horn, with the help of his attorney and former federal prosecutor Brian Layton in late 2009, brought the CIA to its knees. The CIA's efforts to undermine Horn's work in Burma and getting that nation's government to …
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the agency's history. It seems the CIA over the decades had found itself in the corner of narcotic traffickers all over the world. It's an ugly truth, but it is the truth. In early November 2009, government attorneys representing the intere…
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In exchange, the CIA hoped to convince the judge in the case, Royce Lamberth, to erase from the court record several opinions that he had rendered that accused CIA officials of committing a fraud on the court. In other words, they had lied …
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legal system to justify the CIA's use of torture. Both also were involved in the agency's leadership during the intelligence lapses of the 9-11. And yes, that's in air quotes. Horn's civil lawsuit filed in 94 names his defendants, former CI…
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In the litigation, both Horn and Huddle are accused of violating his constitutional rights. Horn also alleges the eavesdropping was a larger effort to basically allow the narco trafficking to continue. The judge in Horn's civil case in 2009…