abuse issue occurred last October. That's when the founding chairman of the six-member Independent Review Board dropped a bombshell by quitting and accusing Levada of preventing disclosure of the board's findings related to more than three dozen priests.



"I just decided that I had had enough; that I couldn't be a part of something that wasn't about openness and transparency," clinical psychologist James Jenkins tells SF Weekly. He faults Levada for "deception, manipulation, and control" of the panel, saying the archbishop has used it as "little more than an elaborate public-relations scheme."





Shortly after SF Weekly requested documents relating to allegations of sex abuse by Catholic clergy, Jack Hammel, the archdiocese's legal counsel, wrote to former Marin DA Kamena to express "shock" that her office had decided to comply withSF Weekly's request "in direct contravention of our previous written agreement."



Hammel reminded her that Ed Berberian, the former assistant DA whom the Marin County Board of Supervisors last week appointed to serve out the remainder of Kamena's unexpired term, had helped draft the protocol. (Kamena resigned from office effective Jan. 4, citing health reasons and the desire to relax and spend more time with her family; Berberian had assumed the role of acting DA weeks before her official departure. Attempts to reach her for comment were unsuccessful.)



Berberian, who had been Kamena's point man on the issue from the start, told SF Weekly in September that he had notified the archdiocese about his boss' plans "as a matter of courtesy."



After Hammel expressed displeasure, however, the DA's Office voluntarily agreed