FBI Not Liable for Agent’s Spying on Wife

The FBI isn’t liable for an agent’s use of work equipment to spy on his wife, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit held Oct. 3 (Gordo-Gonzalez v. United States, 2017 BL 353519, 1st Cir. App., No. 16-2276, 10/3/17).

Supervision of employees is a discretionary function exempt from the government’s waiver of sovereign immunity under the Federal Tort Claims Act, the court said in an opinion by Judge Bruce M. Selya.

Aida Gordo-González’s husband was an FBI agent. After she learned he used equipment from work to monitor her whereabouts, she divorced him. She then sued ...