Judge Sides with CIA A federal judge ruled in favor of the CIA in Valerie Plame and Simon & Schuster’s suit over her forthcoming manuscript. Judge Barbara S. Jones said that the information about how long Plame worked for the agency “was properly classified, was never declassified and has not been officially acknowledged by the CIA.” The judge acknowledges that the agency “does not contest that the information is, in fact, in the public domain” and that “the public may draw whatever conclusions it might from the fact that the information at issue was sent on CIA letterhead by the […]
