CIA to pay $3 million so Horn will not oppose vacating Judge's decision
The CIA has decided to pay Richard Horn $3 million for a unique settlement of a fifteen (15) year-old spying case. The government not only wants Horn to dismiss the case and release the CIA and State Department officials who spied on him, but the government also wants Horn to promise that he will not oppose the government's motion to vacate the judge's prior orders finding that former CIA Director George Tenet committed a "fraud on the court." Having reviewed the settlement agreement, the government's motion to vacate, and an amicus brief filed in the case, it is now apparent to me that the government jacked up the settlement payment in an attempt to buy an erasure of its liability that it would not be entitled to under law. Kim Zetter of Wired magazine has written an article that provides helpful background to this most unusual case.
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