Party

Plaintiff Valerie Plame Wilson

Valerie Plame Testifies in CIA Leak Inquiry
Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k3GuVTfWLw

Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxhBWOYTuNQ

Part 3

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0K-pSNw_O4

Part 4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzT-cQ9vXE

Plaintiff Valerie Plame Wilson (“Valerie Wilson”) was formerly employed by the CIA as a covert Operations Officer. She was born on Elmendorf Air Force Base in Anchorage, Alaska, in 1963. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and two master’s degrees, from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium. Her career in the CIA included extensive work in counterproliferation operations to ensure that enemies of the United States could not threaten American with weapons of mass destruction. She and her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, are the parents of seven-year-old twins. Mrs. Wilson and her family live in New Mexico.

Valerie Plame Wilson was and is required by virtue of a secrecy agreement to submit all writings to CIA’s Publications Review Board (“PRB”) for prepublication review. From the outset, Ms. Wilson endeavored to reach a reasonable resolution with the Agency of any possible national security issues arising from her Memoir. Ms. Wilson was not seeking carte blanche to discuss her entire government service or to reveal any classified information. Ultimately, Ms. Wilson submitted the complete manuscript to the PRB for its review in early September, 2006 and requested a meeting in mid-October 2006 to discuss any required redactions. In the course of requested postponements to this meeting, Ms. Wilson learned for the first time that there was an internal Agency debate about the propriety of revealing information about the duration of her employment affiliation with CIA.. During her first in-person meeting on November 1, 2006, PRB officials indicated that it was their view that prohibiting Ms. Wilson from disclosing any CIA affiliation prior to 2002 would lead to an “absurd” and “ludicrous” result. Nonetheless, on November 8, 2006, Ms. Wilson was informed that a decision had been made by “the Seventh Floor,” i.e., senior Agency management, not to permit her to disclose any Agency affiliation prior to 2002.

Party

Plaintiff Simon & Schuster, Inc.

www.simonsays.com

Plaintiff Simon & Schuster, Inc. (“Simon & Schuster”) is a New York corporation with its principal place of business in New York. Founded in 1924, Simon & Schuster’s prominent imprints include Simon & Schuster, Scribner and Free Press. Simon & Schuster entered into a publishing agreement with plaintiff Valerie Wilson to publish her Memoir.

Lawyer

Plaintiffs’ Lead Counsel: David B. Smallman, Esq.

http://www.wmd-law.com/ourlawyers_partner_ds.htm

Admitted: 1990, New York, Connecticut, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second, Third, Fourth and Ninth Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court

Law School: Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1989

College: Bennington College, B.A., 1977

Biography: Phi Delta Phi. Officer and Problem Editor, Vanderbilt Moot Court Board, 1988-1989. Marr Scholar, 1987-1988. Research Editor, Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, 1988-1989. Contributing Legal Editor, Investigative Reporters and Editors, Inc., The IRE Journal (2000-2007). Author: “Hohe Geldstrafen und Gefängnis,” Message- Internationale Fachzetschrift Für Journalismus (3-2005); “Pre-Litigation Issues for Media Lawyers in the Post-Zabulake World,” MediaLaw Letter of The Media Law Resource Center (January 2004); “Libel Claims After Suzuki: Costly Road Ahead,” The IRE Journal 2004; “Evolving Guidelines, Risks: Electronic Storage of Reporters’ Notes,” the IRE Journal, 2004; "A Roadmap for Avoiding 'False-Light' Claims in Business Reporting," The IRE Journal, 2002; "Judicial Access Rights Give 'Proof Through the Night'," The IRE Journal, 2001; "Disclosure Challenges Arise in Agency Files," The IRE Journal, 2001; "Cameras in Courtrooms: Revisiting the Experiment," The IRE Journal, 2001; "Will Judicial Conference Thwart Internet Access to Court Records?" The IRE Journal, 2001; "Reporters, Lawyers, and Protective Orders," The IRE Journal, 2000; "Public Access in the Age of Privacy: Knowing it When You See It," The IRE Journal, 2000; "Amicus Practice: New Rules for Old Friends," LITIGATION, The Journal of the Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, Vol. 25 No.2 (Winter 1999); "The Purloined Communications Exception to Inadvertent Waiver: Internet Publication and Preservation of Attorney-Client Privilege," 32 TORT & INS. L. J. 715 (1997). Contributor: Barry R. Ostrager and Thomas Newman, The Handbook of Insurance Coverage Disputes, 1994-1996. Formerly with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, 1989-1999.

Member, The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on Communications and Media Law; American Bar Association, Media, Privacy and Defamation Law Committee, Chair, 1998-1999; International Bar Association (Media Law Committee).

Born: New York, New York

Party

Defendant J. Michael McConnell,
In his official capacity as
Director of National Intelligence

http://www.odni.gov/aboutODNI/bios/mcconnell_bio.htm

Defendant J. Michael McConnell (“McConnell”) is Director of National Intelligence (“DNI”), the cabinet-level official coordinating all components of the federal intelligence community by and through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (“ODNI”), and as such is the principal intelligence adviser to the President and the statutory intelligence advisor to the National Security Council. The DNI has statutory oversight authority, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. § 403-1(f)(4), “to ensure compliance with the Constitution and laws of the United States by the Central Intelligence Agency . . . .” He is sued in his official capacity only.

Party

Central Intelligence Agency

https://www.cia.gov/

Defendant Central Intelligence Agency is an agency as defined by 5 U.S.C. § 701. Its actions have prevented plaintiffs from publishing the Manuscript in its entirety.

Party

Defendant General Michael V. Hayden
In his official capacity as Director Central Intelligence Agency

https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/leadership/hayden.html

Defendant Gen. Michael V. Hayden is Director of the CIA (“Hayden”), and is responsible for overseeing the activities of CIA’s PRB in connection with prepublication review of the Manuscript, has original classification authority, pursuant to Exec. Order 13292, and upon information and belief, is primarily responsible for determining whether CIA information is properly classified or classifiable. He is sued in his official capacity only.

Lawyer

Defendants’ Lead Counsel: Michael J. Garcia, Esq.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York

http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/garciam-bio.html

Benjamin H. Torrance, Esq.
Assistant United States Attorney
86 Chambers Street
New York, New York 10007
Tel.: 212.637.2703
Fax: 212.637.2702
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/nys/divisions.html

Judges

United States District Court
Southern District of New York
Hon. Barbara S. Jones

http://www.fjc.gov/public/home.nsf/hisj

Born 1947 in Inglewood, CA

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Southern District of New York
Nominated by William J. Clinton on October 18, 1995, to a seat vacated by Kenneth Conboy; Confirmed by the Senate on December 22, 1995, and received commission on December 26, 1995.

Education:
Mount St. Mary`s College, B.A., 1968
Temple University School of Law, J.D., 1973

Professional Career:
Special attorney, Organized Crime & Racketeering, Criminal Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1973
Special attorney, Manhattan Strike Force Against Organized Crime and Racketeering, U.S. Dept. of Justice, 1973-1977
Assistant U.S. attorney, Southern District of New York, 1977-1987
Chief, General Crimes Unit, 1983-1984
Chief, Organized Crime Unit, 1984-1987
Adjunct associate professor of law, Fordham Law School, 1985-1995
First assistant district attorney, New York County District Attorney's Office, NY, 1987-1995
Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Female

Judges

United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

To be announced

Others

Benjamin A. Powell, Esq.General Counsel
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

http://www.odni.gov/aboutODNI/organization/GeneralCounsel.htm

Others

Trisha S. Wellman, Esq.
Associate General Counsel
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Others

John A. Rizzo
Acting General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency

https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/leadership/john-a-rizzo.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A01E6DA1331F935A1575AC0A9619C8B63

Others

Ginger A. Wright
Associate General Counsel
Central Intelligence Agency

Others

Stephen R. Kappes
Deputy Director, Central Intelligence Agency

https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/leadership/kappes.html

Others

Karen F. Tumolo
Senior Benefits Specialist
Office of Personnel Resources
Directorate of Support
Central Intelligence Agency

Others

Richard J. Puhl
Chair, Publications Review Board
Central Intelligence Agency

Others

I. Lewis “Scooter” Lewis Libby

Others

Karl Rove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln5RD9BhcCo

Others

Richard L. Armitage

http://www.state.gov/s/d/former/42439.htm

Others

Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney

http://www.whitehouse.gov/vicepresident/

Others

President of the United States, George W. Bush

http://www.whitehouse.gov/

Others

Ambassador Joseph Wilson

http://www.greatertalent.com/biography.php?id=258

http://www.thepoliticsoftruth.com/

Others

Hon. Jay Inslee

http://www.house.gov/inslee/

http://www.house.gov/inslee/bio/bio.html

Others

Additional Counsel for Valerie Plame Wilson
In the District Court proceeding:

Prof. Erwin Chemerinsky

http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/chemerinsky/

Others

Additional Counsel for Plaintiff Simon & Schuster, Inc.
Elizabeth A. McNamara, Esq.
Davis Wright Tremaine, LLP

http://www.dwt.com/lawdir/attorneys/McNamaraElizabeth.cfm

Others

Additional Counsel for Plaintiff Valerie Plame Wilson
Lisa E. Davis, Esq.
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz, PC

http://www.fkks.com/bios.asp?attorneyID=3