...more secrets, more previously public documents sealed.
San Antonio Biz Journal reports:
A judge in federal court in Sacramento, Calif., has issued an order sealing previously public court documents in a sensational case that involves a former FBI agent who claims he worked as an international spy for the Bureau.
Former FBI agent Lok Thye Lau alleges he worked for the Bureau as a deep undercover agent overseas in the late 1980s. Lau contends the work was of such a stressful and horrific nature that it caused him permanent psychological damage, yet he says the FBI has refused to provide him with the necessary security clearances to pursue proper treatment.
... The remarkable allegations made by Lau are supported by court records and reams of Freedom of Information Act documents. However, on Oct. 10, a federal judge in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr., issued an order to seal pleadings in Lau's case. Those pleadings detail Lau's FBI career and reveal that he conducted undercover work overseas "against hostile and aggressive foreign powers for years."
Specifically, Judge Burrell ordered that a previously public Declaration filed in Lau's case be sealed. The judge also ordered the sealing of pleadings in a friend-of-the-court brief filed on Lau's behalf by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), one of the nation's oldest Hispanic civil-rights groups. The sealed documents are to be replaced with documents redacted to remove the alleged sensitive material.
Well, Al provides those documents.
....hey, do what you want, Al....I'm all for disclosure.
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
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