Keeping Government Secrets: A Pocket Guide for Judges on the State-Secrets Privilege, the Classified Information Procedures Act, and Court Security Officers

摘要

As courts adjudicate cases involving classified information, they must protect government secrets. The Classified Information Procedures Act (CIPA) provides procedures for protecting classified information in criminal prosecutions. Similar procedures are used in civil cases. The courts are assisted in their protection of government secrets by court security officers provided by a small office in the Department of Justices Management Division called the Litigation Security Group. According to an executive order of President Clinton, Security policies designed to protect classified information must ensure consistent, cost effective, and efficient protection of our Nations classified information, while providing fair and equitable treatment to those Americans upon whom we rely to guard our national security.