Scientology sues Clearwater leader over Email DAY1

[Anonymous]

Scientology sues longtime Clearwater leader over New Year's Eve email

The Church of Scientology has sued its longtime Clearwater leader Debbie Cook after she publicly questioned the church's aggressive fundraising tactics and other practices.

The lawsuit — filed Friday in San Antonio, Texas, where Cook lives — reveals that the church paid Cook and her husband, Wayne Baumgarten, $50,000 each to remain silent about their time on church staff.

Cook, 50, worked 17 years as the church's top official in Clearwater, Scientology's worldwide spiritual headquarters. Serving in the post of "captain," she presided over an operation that brought in more than $1.7 billion for the church during that time.

Cook and Baumgarten each signed nondisclosure agreements as they left the staff in October 2007. All told, Cook had worked in the church's religious order, the Sea Org, for 29 years.

The church alleges that the couple violated the agreements when Cook circulated a New Year's Eve letter urging Scientologists to work internally to reform the church. The letter reached thousands of church members via email.[more]

[Anonymous]

Scientology Sues Debbie Cook Over Her New Year's Eve E-Mail

Monday evening, the Tampa Bay Times reported that the Church of Scientology filed a lawsuit Friday in San Antonio against Debbie Cook and her husband Wayne Baumgarten. The lawsuit, which accuses Cook of violating the terms of a non-disclosure agreement when she dared to criticize the leadership of her church, should draw major media attention to various issues that have been splitting Scientology apart, as we've been reporting over the last few years here at the Voice

On January 1, the Voice was the first in the press to report that on New Year's Eve, Cook sent out a remarkable e-mail to thousands of her fellow Scientologists which harshly criticized the "extreme fundraising" of the church under leader David Miscavige. Carefully citing the words of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, Cook made it clear that she was not an outsider, but a member in good standing who wanted her fellow members to question where the church was headed.

Now, Scientology reveals that Cook and Baumgarten were paid $50,000 each to sign non-disclosure agreements as they left their staff jobs with the church in 2007. By speaking out in the e-mail, Cook violated her agreement, Scientology's lawyers claim. [more]

[Anonymous]

Debbie Cook Files to Dissolve Scientology's Temporary Restraining Order

Yesterday, Debbie Cook began her defense against Scientology's lawsuit which seeks $300,000 in damages because she dared to speak out to her fellow church members in an e-mail sent on New Year's Eve.

Cook, through her newly hired San Antonio attorney, Ray B. Jeffrey, filed to dissolve the temporary restraining order that Scientology was granted a week ago which prevents her from talking to anyone -- even her own husband -- about the case or about Scientology. Friday morning, a hearing will be held over Cook's motion, but we are learning that the real fireworks are coming next Thursday, when a hearing about a temporary injunction will give Cook the opportunity to introduce evidence that Jeffrey characterizes as "beyond the pale of what a human being should endure." [more]

[Anonymous]

Debbie Cook's Motion Denied: Scientology's Restraining Order Remains in Place

Debbie Cook, who is being sued by the Church of Scientology for speaking out to her fellow church members in a New Year's Eve e-mail, filed a motion to dissolve a temporary restraining order so broad, it prevented her from hiring an attorney (she hired one anyway) or talking about the case with her husband, who is also being sued.

After a hearing this morning, however, Texas 150th District Court Judge Janet P. Littlejohn denied Cook's motion and continued matters until Thursday, when the restraining order will run out and there will be a hearing to determine if the same restrictions on Cook's rights will become a temporary injunction that could last the duration of the case.

Littlejohn's clerk, Shirley Myers, confirmed to me that Cook's motion had been denied, but she added that another judge, and not necessarily Littlejohn, will preside over Thursday's hearing, when the real fireworks in this case should begin.

As Cook's attorney's Ray Jeffrey told me yesterday, it is in that hearing that he plans to introduce evidence of how Cook was treated in the church she gave so many years -- and we have already published some harrowing examples of that. [more]

[Anonymous]

The Voice at the Debbie Cook Hearing

Scientology filed its lawsuit two weeks ago and was granted a temporary restraining order which prevents Cook and Baumgarten from talking about the case. That TRO runs out today, and will be replaced with a temporary injunction which will keep the gag order in place throughout the life of the lawsuit -- unless Cook and her attorney, Ray Jeffrey, can convince a judge otherwise.

The Voice is on the scene this morning in San Antonio, and we'll be doing our best to bring you updates throughout the day.
updates

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6:15 am: CST The district judges of Bexar County take turns presiding -- this week it's Judge Karen H. Pozza, and it will be her decision who will handle today's matter. Will she give it to Judge Janet P. Littlejohn, who handled last week's motion to dissolve the temporary restraining order (she denied it), or give it to someone else? Pozza could even keep it for herself. Put yourself in her place -- do you hear this case or give it to someone else? Finding out Pozza's decision will likely be our first matter of business.

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8:30 am: The Bexar County Courthouse is a lovely old historic building. Looks like Judge Pozza is about to start with today's docket.

8:49 am: Ray Jeffrey just entered Judge Pozza's court with his two assistants. We're waiting now for her to get to the Cook case. She's got a line of attorneys at the bench, waiting to learn what court they'll be in today.

8:55 am: In walk Marty Rathbun and Mike Rinder. They clean up well.

9:09 am: Pozza now reading the docket. Just met Joe Childs. Hot damn.

9:30 am: It's Judge Martha Tanner. We're headed for the 4th floor.

Rathbun: "They moved to exclude the media. She told them to shove it." Judge Tanner's bench is decorated with the following signs...

• "The witch is in"
  
• "Yes I'm a witch, deal with it"
  
• "Thou shalt not whine"
  

Three television cameras showed up. They're setting up one to serve as a pool feed. Tom Tobin just introduced himself to me. What a hell of a thing.

Debbie Cook and Wayne Baumgarten are now at the table with their attorney Ray Jeffrey and his two assistants. On the other side, the church appears to have five attorneys.

George Spencer giving his opening statement.

Scientology's attorney, Spencer, tried to get the judge to scuttle Jeffrey's opening statement because it would violate the agreements! She said no. No[sic](maybe meant Now) Jeffrey is up.

Jeffrey: "Ms. Cook was beaten. She was tortured. She was degraded beyond belief. She was made to watch the torture and beatings and degradation of others. And not just one or two. She was confined in inhuman conditions...they signed this agreement just to get away."

11:00 am. Jeffrey wrapping up his lengthy, impassioned opening statement (he got emotional at one point when he described Wayne Baumgarten wanting to not rock the boat with the church so he could continue to talk to his sons and father, who are church members). Scientology had wanted Judge Tanner to keep Jeffrey under constraints, but she hasn't interrupted him once.

11:09 am Jeffrey finishing up by raising the issue of the church doing the exact opposite in Florida, where they want a court to butt out when it comes to contracts with members. Apparently, Jeffrey did word clear "estoppel." Recess.

11:26 am. Rinder and Rathbun have been excluded from the room because they will be witnesses.

Spencer calls Debbie Cook to the stand.

11:40 am. Spencer is showing a videotape of Debbie Cook, in 2007, being interviewed by church attorney Eliot Abelson as she agrees to sign the NDA.

12:05 pm. Lunch break. If the church's intention was to slow things down to a crawl, watching 4-year-old video of documents being signed, page by page, they succeeded. All energy drained from the courtroom. Everyone bolts for lunch.

Too much info for this entry. See further comments @ blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/2012/02/scientology_dee.php

[Anonymous]

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Courtroom galley w/ Cooks at bottom left

Cook's attorneys

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Done for the day. Back at 9:30. More Debbie and hubbie. While writing my recap of pm, check my blog.
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"I wasn't going through months of confessions. I wanted out" cook on leaving #Scientology
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Also wrote, I'll take whatever steps to get out, even if it means slitting my wrists. #Scientology
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Cook freaking out @ confess. Wrote mom. "If I'm not out in 3 days, call the police" #Scientology
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Confess -> feel better -> stay in #Scientology reach point you don't want to leave
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The leaving confessional is circular. They'll never let you go, cook's atty said. #Scientology
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Cook "they wanted to do a leaving confessional. You're asked @ why leaving." she broke down because
of all the bad stuff #Scientology
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Plaintiff "church" didn't live up to agreent, cook's atty said. He's going towards cook signing under
duress. #Scientology
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On the way, told by Francine, we're going to hacienda. Very upset. Couldn't jump out of moving van
#Scientology
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Thought they were going to "regal palms". Asstd living for old scientologists. Hubbys mom was there.
#Scientology
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Cook went back "I didn't want me husband to lose his whole family" #Scientology
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Cook told true "I'm done." True said if you don't come back, you'll be excommunicated and husband's
fam would be cut off #Scientology
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True wanted them to go back to flag. Cook said going to see dad. Agree to meet in nc. Car had been
boxes in. 4 guys #Scientology
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Cook and hubby tracked to diner in s.c. caught by Cathy True, head of executive search. #Scientology
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Telling others in #Scientology about the hole would be "treasonous" -cook
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Why didn't cook tell about hole? " it's not covered in any l Ron Hubbard procedure. It was very off
the rails. #Scientology
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How get out of hole? About to be big event at flag. The preps were in trouble. She was let out to
review. Allowed to stay #Scientology
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"you feel degrated. You're in a horrific mental state" -Cook on 7 weeks in the hole. #Scientology
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Head of intl center and Watchdog committee beat, told they must confess to having homosexual
tendencies. #Scientology
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In hole. Bizarre confessions "I'd like to state, this is not standard #Scientology practice." -cook.
Beatings. Confessions demanded.
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May07. More than 100 in the hole. Cook there. Slept on floor. Infested w/ ants. No elec. order of
miscavige. 106 inside #Scientology
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Cook may 07 intl base. Miscavige upset. In office. pounding on door. Pried window open. 2 big guys.
Took her to "the hole" #Scientology
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Cook says she was at mtng with miscavige & top England execs. Miscavige ordered bob Keenan to throw them into lake. #Scientology
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Cook sez called into conference room and miscavige ordered female asst to slap her.miscavige ordered
her fingers broke. #Scientology
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Cook sez Nelson was beat up by miscavige's female asst and 2 other guys. Nelson made to lick bathroom floor clean #Scientology
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Cook says with mark ginge Nelson. He saw miscavige assault.
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Miscavige told cook he put 40 execs in the hole. Took her to see them. #Scientology
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Cook talking about time with mr miscavige. Saw him punch in face and wrestle another sr. #Scientology
leader. Didn't say whom.
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To all my new #Scientology pals. Do me a fav. I tweeting a link to my blog @ this am. Click it. Make
my bosses happy.
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"we were told that... There's a practice where you get declared to be a suppressive person" cook, on
signing papers. #Scientology
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"I would have signed that I stabbed babies over and over again." cook, on why she signed.
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Cook says in hole she was slapped, put in trash can, humiliated, called a lesbian. Started crying.
#Scientology
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The hole is a series of double wide trailers. Locked up for 7 weeks. #Scientology
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Why afraid? Scared of going into "the hole". Made to do confessions where stand up I front of ppl and
be yelled it #Scientology
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Cook sez she was afraid they would take her to "international base." #Scientology
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Cook says she had fibromyalgia, walking pneumonia. Didn't get medical treatment at "compound"
#Scientology
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Security guards, security cameras, 8 ft walls, motion detectors, no pedestrian gate, guard shack for
cars @ hacienda gardens. #Scientology
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Church lawyers tried to stop talk of imprisonment. She shot them down. #Scientology
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Cook was held captive at place called hacienda gardens. Sounds like apartment complex. #Scientology
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"I couldn't leave. I was imprisoned. It was only when I threatened to call police that I could leave. " -cook
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@sxenuwitz Scientology lawyers called her first. They're seeking tro. They get to lead.
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Why cry when signed agreement? "I had put my whole life into what I was doing. I was unhappy it was
ending this way."
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And we're back. Cook's attorney is now Questioning Cook. #Scientology
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Afternoon break. Cook atty thinks this will be wrapped up by tomorrow *cross fingers* #Scientology
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@burningmist and, like everything he does, it's awesome. Wish I had that much space. I've got 30 seconds. Perils of radio news.
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"I intend to sort out this agreement because it's not right!" -cook #Scientology
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Asked "you can't fault the church for coming after you?" cook, "Yes, I can!!!"
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@ddsconsulting I think there's a crew from ABC here. Can't wait to see what they do!
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"i am going to play an active roll in the religion I love!" cook to sutter. #Scientology
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Cook email to #Scientology atty sutter "you can sue away but I have no money to pay. Spent $100gr.
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@hearsaysa @wawasmama I see @johnmaccormack sitting in front of me taking notes. Read his story! It will be great.
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Did not expect the church to sue me. I expected church ppl would "come to see us." studied agreement
before sending nye email #Scientology
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But cook sez she crafted it carefully not to do that. #Scientology
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Church lawyers hitting hard that the nye email cook sent was damaging. Contrary to terms of agreement.
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"my email doesn't say I'm blasting anyone!" but cook admits it is critical of church #Scientology
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Going through newspaper articles about cooks email, all painting the church in a bad light
#Scientology
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On vid, #Scientology atty said they gave cook a list of ppl ace I allowed to speak with if she has probs. $50k check. "good luck to you.
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Cook said she thought $50k was a gift and at time didn't think strings attached. #Scientology
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On tape, Cook starts crying. Asked, she said she was sad she was leaving sea org #Scientology
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Michael Board
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Vid of cook agreeing to leave church w/ Cali lawyer of #Scientology She does not look under duress.
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Debbie Cook on stand #Scientology

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We're back. Cook atty will put on former #Scientology members who muzzle and get agreements. Debbie Cook takes stand.
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Think we got all the fireworks this am. Cook atty wants video from inside "residential compound."

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Quick break in #Scientology case. Recap: church = they signed a contract. Cooks = signed under duress. Should go today and tomorrow.
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Michael Board
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Cook Atty wrapping up. Basically, this is about free speech. #Scientology
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Cook atty claims they were kidnaped, beaten, tortured an made to watch others tortured in residential compound #Scientology
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Cooks "kidnapped" by church and held 2-3 weeks at residential compound used by church #Scientology
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Cook atty "signed agreement under extreme duress" and agreement was "unconstitutional" #Scientology
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Fmr Scientology leader cook was apparently held captive, escaped and caught by church. Cook atty wants videos. #Scientology

[Anonymous]

Ex-Clearwater Scientology leader claims kidnapping, torture before she left church

That case is being heard in San Antonio, where Cook and Baumgarten moved after leaving the Sea Org.

In the court papers made public Thursday, Cook and Baumgarten said the church held them against their will until they signed the agreements. They were kept under constant surveillance by church security and feared physical and mental abuse, they say.

"Such physical and mental abuse was commonly used by the Church of Scientology to secure obedience from church insiders," according to the court papers.

Cook said she was subjected to beatings, torture, mental and emotional abuse and was denied medical care. The papers don't say where this occurred.

Cook's health declined to the point where her "free agency was effectively destroyed," the papers say.

Cook and Baumgarten believed that if they left the church but did not sign the agreements, they would never be permitted to communicate with family members who remain in the church. Baumgarten's mother was in a church-funded nursing home.

"Simply stated, Ms. Cook and her husband would have signed anything they were required to in order to be free from their captivity and danger, and they were rendered powerless to resist signing the agreement," Cook's attorney, Ray Jeffrey of Bulverde, asserted in the court filing.

The pleadings indicate that beyond duress, there are several other reasons the nondisclosure agreement should be declared unenforceable. Cook and Baumgarten say the agreement is extreme and unreasonable in that it violates their freedom to practice their religion as Scientologists.

Ex-Clearwater Scientology officer Debbie Cook testifies she was put in "The Hole,'' abused for weeks

Scientology executive Debbie Cook was on the phone with church leader David Miscavige when she heard someone pounding at her office door at a church compound in California.

Not wanting to hang up on her angry boss, who was complaining about her performance, she didn't answer the knocks. The pounding stopped, but someone was prying open her office window. Two male church employees crawled in.

"Are they there?" Miscavige asked.

Yes, Cook answered.

"Goodbye," the church leader said.

The men took Cook away to a place called the "The Hole," two doublewide trailers on the church's 500-acre California compound where, other high-ranking church defectors have told the Tampa Bay Times, Miscavige sent underperforming executives. The windows were covered with bars, and security guards controlled the only exit, Cook said.

Cook said she was held there seven weeks with more than 100 other Scientology executives. [more @ link]

[Anonymous]

Scientologists squabble in S.A. court

A closely watched case that is already laying bare the innards of the Church of Scientology opened on Thursday with allegations of abuse and the enforced captivity of dissident members.

“Mrs. Cook was beaten, she was tortured and she was degraded beyond belief. And she was confined in inhumane conditions,” Ray Jeffrey, representing Debbie Cook, stated.

Cook, 50, a long-time high official in the church in Florida, is being sued for allegedly violating an extensive non-disclosure agreement she signed in October 2007, when she left the church.

She and her husband Wayne Baumgarten moved to San Antonio later that year, and in January, the church sued the pair here over an email Cook sent out on New Years Eve to other Scientologists.

But Jeffrey told state District Judge Martha Tanner that Cook's signature, and that of her husband on a similar 10-page agreement, were the result of "extreme duress and undue influence," making the contract unenforceable on numerous grounds.

The hearing that began Thursday is over an injunction imposed last week forbidding the pair from talking to almost anyone about the case or Scientology.

In the email which triggered the litigation, Cook criticized the church for straying from the teachings of founder L. Ron Hubbard.

She specifically questioned the church's “continuous fundraising,” and accumulation of wealth, which she stated had reached a billion dollars.

She also questioned the elimination of much of the church's top leadership and referred obliquely to managers being subjected to “very long and harsh ethics programs.”

While Jeffrey has argued that the case is about constitutional freedom of speech and religion, church lawyers have cast it as no more than a simple contractual dispute.

In summarizing the case from the church's point of view, George Spencer Jr. told the judge, “It's simply about the defendants being required to live up to agreements they made back in 2007. They were made freely and knowingly. The agreements were that they would not disclose information about the church and would not disparage the church.”

And, he told the judge, each of the two had accepted $50,000 from the church as part of the agreement.

Spencer also told Tanner that the disturbing allegations being raised by Jeffrey were irrelevant and should not even be heard in open court.

“Certain media, because of a fascination with Scientology, will report and sensationalize the most minor event into a controversy. And that is what the defendants are trying to do today,” Spencer said.

In a request that raised the eyebrows of uninvolved lawyers who were taking in the unusual proceeding, Spencer asked the judge to delay the other side's opening statement.

“I'm asking for a ruling that Mr. Jeffrey not get into the subjects I have mentioned until after we present our evidence. I'm asking that he be required to reserve his opening statement,” said Spencer.

But Jeffrey objected vigorously, saying, “They want to muzzle my client, and now they want to muzzle me in court.”

Tanner agreed, and allowed him in general terms to lay out his case.

In attendance were several other former high officials in the church, as well as reporters from Florida, where Scientology has its spiritual headquarters, and New York City.

Cook, who was called as Spencer's first witness, was shown a video of her talking to a church lawyer and signing the agreement in October 2007. But she denied entering into the agreements voluntarily.

“I had no thoughts about it. I knew I had to sign papers,” she said.

Crying at times on the video while answering the lawyer's questions in a subdued voice, Cook agreed with almost everything the lawyer stated, including that she was leaving the church voluntarily and for medical reasons.

She is also heard on the video expressing her gratitude for the $50,000, although the lawyer also mentions that he had to persuade her to accept it.

In her testimony Thursday, Cook said she had understood the money to be a gift from the church, and not part of the non-disclosure agreement.

“I didn't understand any connection at the time,” she testified.

When all the paperwork was done, the lawyer was heard on the video wishing her well, and saying “Hopefully it's a continuing non-relationship relationship.”

Cook is expected to testify Thursday afternoon, and the hearing is expected to continue on Friday. Among the witnesses that Jeffrey says he may call are Mike Rinder and Marty Rathbun, two other former high officials in the church. According to Jeffrey, they will describe the church's policy of silencing former officials and members.

And while Cook testified Thursday that she still loves Scientology and considers herself a practicing Scientologist, a church spokesperson said she had been expelled, and denounced her in an email as a “squirrel.”

“A squirrel is someone who alters Scientology Scripture; a heretic,” wrote spokesperson Karin Pouw.

[Anonymous]

from ESMB PDF: Tampabay.com's PDF versions of Debbie Cook's letters

From Exhibit a letter Debbie Cook sent to CoS shortly after her email went public. The letter itself is a must read for anyone following the case. January 15, 2012, letter from Debbie Cook to Ben Shaw of OSA, written after they started harassing her following her now-famous January 1, 2012, email to thousands of Scientologists

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Exhibit B

From: Debbie Baumgarten [something blacked out]
To: Kathy True [something blacked out]
Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2012 3:24 PM
Subject: comm to OSA

To: Ben Shaw, OSA Int, RTC

My letter to Scientologist friends was sent out to thousands of additional people by someone else. I am also certain at this point that it was Marty and the Independents that worked so hard to get that comm into the press. I steadfastly refused to talk to the press despite non-stop phone calls and reporters showing up at my work. And I wrote that letter to Tampa Bay Times to try and diffuse the situation.

So think about it, is that really the work of someone dedicated to harming the Church?

Think about what I could have done if my actual intentions were to cause real damage. I would have been granting interviews to those reporters flat out. And think about the things I could have told them. I could have told them all about the “hole” with bars on the windows and 24/7 security, not to mention the unbelievably disgusting, inhumane and squirrel things done within that confinement. There were over 100 people in “the hole” when I was there. The entirety of WDC, CMOI and Exec Strata along with numerous Gold execs. It was a true horror story and could cause serious PR ramifications if the truth was known about this without the slightest embellishment.

Or I could talk about the beatings that I personally witnessed, including watching DM punch and wrestle Yager to the ground. I remember DM having Bob Keenen in UK march Guillaume, Heber, Yager out to the freezing water in the lake at St Hill and making them go in. Then there’s the demented name tags he gave people, the pie faces he made top execs wear, the caps with denigrating labels, the darth vader helmet and many other things used to haze and denigrate SO executives. Or I could bring up Mark Ginge Nelson being made to lick the bathroom floor clean at ASI because he dared to say he disagreed with beating other execs or that there is no policy covering “the hole”. These were his “huge crimes” for which he was physically beaten. I could go on and on, but hopefully you get the point by now. There is plenty I could have exposed if I was out to damage the Church. I am not.

However, I see you are up to plenty of under-handed tactics with your lies and black PR. Handing out “Debbie Cook dead agent packs” to the field, having all your little OSA spies passing around messages listing “the suppressive acts Debbie committed”, telling people I am starting a splinter group or that I connected to known declared SPs. That I am an “apostate”, “defector”, etc. Or that my SP declare is on lines and coming down tomorrow or any of the other things I am hearing from Scientologists and the press. Maybe you are declaring me suppressive. That would be a really dumb move for you. But if so, then I would at least expect it to be laid out properly in an issue so I can be shown it and others can see it in writing. Do you remember the policy that “if it isn’t written it isn’t true”? Or how about PR Series 1 – “Never tell lies”. And these pathetic DA attempts in the press are making matters worse PR-wise as they have been grossly overused and misused.

Our clients were contacted and told to disconnect. Now to make matters worse, our families are being messed with. Meanwhile no one has said one word to us. DO YOU REALLY WANT TO ALIENATE ME COMPLETELY?

I put out a simple message to not support anything not covered in tech or policy by L. Ron Hubbard and to go up the Bridge. How is that so horrible and despicable? Oh, I forgot, I dared to challenge DM. My OL is L. Ron Hubbard. Why is it DM can’t come up with one LRH reference to support having to donate yourself into a hole to support the IAS or pay for opulent buildings for every org? Well? Could it be that LRH never directed this? Maybe someone in OSA should look up the SEF advices to see what LRH said about getting Scientologists to donate to things like this. Or how about the BIC advices and what LRH actually said about org buildings. There are some serious policy violations going on. I dared to give a few LRH references. But I am still an important part of the biggest cover up in Scientology history. And for that, I expect a certain quid pro quo. If you expect me to help you cover up actual crimes committed at the Int Base, then I expect that you keep your shit together and not fly off the handle with bizarre lies or manipulations of my family, clients and comm lines because I pointed out a few policy violations. So do it. Get your shit together, collect up all the “DA” packs, cease with the “disconnection” program, leave my family alone and drop it. You expect me to “drop it”. DM ordered one of his staff to smack me to the floor while he watched and another one to break my finger and ordered me to be tortured in the hole for weeks, and I am expected to “drop it”. Well I complained about a couple of policy violations and I expect you to “drop it” as well. Get a grip people. There is much worse out there than Debbie Cook complaining about over-regging. I am helping you cover up some things that were seriously off the rails and could be very damaging PR-wise. I would at least expect you to not antagonize me further with your bullshit.

- Debbie

[Anonymous]

Google Translate: tagesanzeiger.ch Scientology Boss David Miscavige Strikes Back

[Anonymous]

Tony Ortega: Scientology vs Debbie Cook, Day 1: Our Totally Unscientific Handicapping
^follow link for full recap of Day1's events

In this piece, I'd just like to share some thoughts about how the case is going, from my totally unscientific, legally untrained, and I'm-doing-this-fast-because-I-want-a-margarita perspective....
... today, under oath, one of the most well known former executives in Scientology put on the public record a harrowing tale of degradation in the Sea Org. And you have to think, was that really worth suing Debbie Cook?