The case of "Wiener v FBI" escalated over many years. A settlement with the FBI was reached in 1997 before the case could be heard before the Supreme Court, and most documents except ten were released to Wiener as part of the agreement. According to Wiener, the government paid $204,000 in court costs and attorney fees. The justice department lawyers retained ten documents under the national security proviso of the FOIA. In 2006, the final eight or ten documents of Lennon's file were released. According to Wiener, the ten pages revealed there had been contacts between Lennon and leftist and anti-war groups in London in the early 1970s but that there had been no signs that government officials saw Lennon as a serious threat, and only regarded solicitation of funds for a "left-wing bookshop and reading room in London" but that Lennon did not provide any funds for this purpose. Wiener wrote:  Wiener expressed amazement that so much of the information had been withheld:  Wiener wrote about his legal battles in his book, "Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files", published by the University of California Press in 2000. The book includes copies of 100 key documents from the Lennon file, including "lengthy reports by confidential informants detailing the daily lives of anti-war activists, memos to the White House, transcripts of TV shows on which Lennon appeared, and a proposal that Lennon be arrested by local police on drug charges." He also wrote about the case and its significance for The Guardian, The Nation, the L.A. Times, and The New Republic. Wiener's work provided the basis for the 2006 documentary "The U.S. vs. John Lennon". Wiener served as a historical consultant to the production and also appears in the film. He also appears in the documentary "LENNONYC", which aired on the PBS show "American Masters" in 2010. He was interviewed about the Lennon FBI Files by Terry Gross on the NPR program "Fresh Air." ACLU attorney Mark Rosenbaum said that the "Wiener v FBI" case revealed "government paranoia at a pathological level and an attempt to shield executive branch abuse of civil liberties under the rubric of national security." Wiener is the author of seven books. In addition to his co-authored 2020 book "Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties", Wiener also wrote "Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud and Power in the Ivory Tower." he examined various academic scandals and concluded that media spectacles end careers only when powerful, usually right-leaning external groups demand punishment.