Law Scholar Challenges Key Clearance Case

Navy v. Egan is a 1988 U.S. Supreme Court case that has been used to severely limit the ability of courts to intervene in executive branch authority to distinguish national security information and access to it (in other words, to issue security clearances). However, according to Secrecy News, an employee of the Law Library of Congress has released a report saying that the executive branch’s interpretation of Egan goes too far.

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