Melanie Sloan

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Melanie Sloan (born 16 December 1965) is the Executive Director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

Sloan was born in Delaware.[1] She attended the University of Chicago and received her J.D. from University of Chicago Law School. After a career as a Democratic congressional staffer and a U.S. Attorney prosecuting sex crimes, she was approached by Norm Eisen to co-found CREW in 2003, and ran it single-handedly until 2005 when she began to be able to hire her own staff.[1]

She is the legal counsel for former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson and his wife, retired CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson, whose then-classified covert identity was disclosed, leading to the CIA leak grand jury investigation and the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in United States v. Libby (see Plame affair). Sloan is one of the attorneys representing the Wilsons in their civil lawsuit against former and current officials of the George W. Bush administration (Plame v. Cheney, whose dismissal in federal court is currently being appealed.[2])

[edit] Hardball

When Sloan was a guest on Hardball with Chris Matthews in December 2006, she spoke openly about many details in the Libby trial. Following her appearance on the show, she drew a strong warning from Judge Reggie Walton. Walton admonished Sloan and stated that "the Court would not tolerate this case being tried in the media."[3]

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  1. ^ a b Sam Rosenfeld, "Beware of Watchdog: Meet Rabble-Rouser Melanie Sloan" ("The Republicans don't like her. The Democrats are leery of her. She's exactly what this town needs."), The American Prospect, October 23, 2005, accessed July 27, 2007.
  2. ^ Joseph and Valerie Wilson Legal Support Trust Home Page. Accessed July 27, 2007.
  3. ^ Joel Seidman, "Attorney Admonished for Statements on Libby: Wilson Lawyer Predicted Jury Could Find V.P.'s Former Chief of Staff Guilty", MSNBC, December 21, 2006, accessed July 27, 2007.

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