[3][5] While in this assignment, she reported a fellow CIA officer, Aldrich Ames, to her superiors because she believed that he was a security risk but no action was taken at the time.

[1] Brookner moved back to CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia, and in 1988, the Head of Latin American Operations, Jerry Gruner, offered her a position as chief of station for Jamaica.

A case officer, Jayna Hill, got drunk at a party that was attended by Vice President Dan Quayle and said publicly that she was employed by the CIA.

However, in March 1991 she was told by Ambassador Glen Holden that Emerton had threatened to kill his security guards and it was agreed that he would receive a psychiatric evaluation.

[3] The Inspector General's report was published in January 1993 and accused Brookner of being a "boozy provocateur" who wore improper clothing and made sexual advances on her male subordinates.

The first charge referred to Brookner claiming overtime for the preparation of a Thanksgiving dinner for local contacts in 1989 and the second alleged that she used a government helicopter for a picnic on Lime Cay.

[1][3] Brookner hired Victoria Toensing to dispute the charges, but when the CIA failed to respond, they decided to sue for sex discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

The complaint was filed on July 14, 1994, and listed CIA Director R. James Woolsey, Hitz, Dunn, and the five employees who had been disciplined in Jamaica as defendants.

[10] On November 10, Toensing met with the defense attorney for the CIA, John A. Rogovin, and learned that there was an additional accusation that Brookner had sexually harassed a subordinate.

[15] On July 13, 1995, Brookner wrote to the Attorney General, Janet Reno, recommending that a criminal investigation be launched against her accusers for perjury.

[3][16] No charges were brought but on March 22, 1996, she appeared on ABC News Nightline alongside former CIA officials, Robert Gates, Thomas Twetten, and Milton Bearden, all of whom condemned the agency's treatment of her.

[10] She became known for this type of work and represented a number of former CIA, Drug Enforcement Administration, State Department, and other federal employees in their cases against their former agencies.

[5][20] She defended James Peterson and Patrick McHale, two federal meat inspectors with the Department of Agriculture who were fired after reporting their colleagues for bribery and misconduct.

[1] Brookner published a book in 2004 titled Piercing the Veil of Secrecy which was an instruction manual on how to beat the CIA and other federal agencies in court.