{"id":127,"date":"2007-04-05T16:07:57","date_gmt":"2007-04-05T20:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/?p=127"},"modified":"2021-02-14T02:33:22","modified_gmt":"2021-02-14T07:33:22","slug":"former-cia-polygrapher-john-sullivan-files-suit-against-the-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/2007\/04\/05\/former-cia-polygrapher-john-sullivan-files-suit-against-the-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Former CIA Polygrapher John Sullivan Files Suit Against the Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists’ Secrecy in Government Project reports<\/a> in his Secrecy News<\/em> electronic newsletter and blog:<\/p>\n

A former polygrapher for the Central Intelligence Agency has filed a lawsuit<\/a> (pdf) alleging that the Agency unlawfully retaliated against him for publishing a critical account of CIA polygraph programs.<\/p>\n

John Sullivan, author of the forthcoming book “Gatekeeper: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner,”<\/a> argued that his security clearance was improperly revoked in the course of a lengthy pre-publication review dispute, though it was ultimately restored.<\/p>\n

“The CIA’s treatment of John Sullivan, a former employee who dared speak out, is indicative of a pattern and practice by the CIA of unlawful and disgraceful retaliation through the abuse of the security clearance process,” said Mark S. Zaid<\/a>, the attorney who is representing Mr. Sullivan.<\/p>\n

The allegations were described in an April 5 press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The CIA response to the lawsuit will be posted when it is filed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See the message board thread, Gatekeer: Memoirs of a CIA Polygraph Examiner<\/a> to discuss the book that cost John Sullivan his security clearance. (Perhaps in recognition that the revocation of his clearance was baseless, the CIA has already restored it.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steven Aftergood of the Federation of American Scientists’ Secrecy in Government Project reports in his Secrecy News electronic newsletter and blog: A former polygrapher for the Central Intelligence Agency has filed a lawsuit (pdf) alleging that the Agency unlawfully retaliated against him for publishing a critical account of CIA polygraph programs. John Sullivan, author of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[66,29,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-polygraph","7":"tag-cia","8":"tag-counterintelligence","9":"tag-polygraph-screening","10":"anons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2747,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127\/revisions\/2747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antipolygraph.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}