NEW YORK -- The government urged a federal judge on Monday to reject for national security reasons a lawsuit in which the wife of a former covert CIA employee seeks to force the government to deliver on alleged unfulfilled promises.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Sarah S. Normand made the argument to U.S. District Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who asked both sides to submit further papers in the case in Manhattan before she rules.
Normand cited a submission last month by CIA Director Porter Goss, who said state secrets would be divulged that could jeopardize national security if the civil lawsuit by the mother and three children, all listed anonymously, proceeded.
The family's lawyer, Mark S. Zaid, asked the judge to relax the secrecy so he can at least telephone his clients to build his case.
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