BACKGROUND
Wolfowitz is the second in command at the Department of Defense, a position he also held when Dick Cheney was the Secretary of Defense for President Bush's father during the first Gulf War. He has had a long career advising Republican Presidents and also served as Ambassador to Indonesia during President Reagan's Administration.

PREMISE OF THE SUIT
SPADES are members of President George W. Bush's Administration, either Cabinet members or Advisors. The departments they lead implement the rules and policies established by the Administration as well as by the laws passed by the U.S. Congress, the House of Representatives and the Senate. They are in power as appointees of the President who is in office because of the choices made in the 2000 Presidential election by the voters and the U.S. Supreme Court.

LINKS
www.dod.gov/bios/depsecdef_bio.html
www.whitehouse.gov/government/cabinet.html