Government
Mar. 3, 2005
Court Won't Permit Former Spies to Sue CIA
LOS ANGELES - You can come in from the cold, but don't expect to warm your buns on the government dole for the rest of your life. Hearkening back to a Civil War-era precedent, Chief Justice William Rehnquist wrote Wednesday that a married couple who were former Cold War spies could not sue the CIA for allegedly backing out of a pledge of lifetime support in return for espionage services. Tenet v. Doe , 2005 DJDAR 2461 (U.S. Sct. March 2, 2005).
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