High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Valerie E. Caproni, born 1955 (age 54 55), is an American lawyer who now serves as the FBI's general counsel. Caproni played a leading role in limiting the involvement of FBI officials in interrogations of Guantanamo captives when interrogators from other agencies used "enhanced interrogation techniques". Caproni grew up in Columbus, Georgia, and attended Hardaway High School, graduating in the class of 1973. As a teenaged girl, she also attended the Georgia Governor's Honors Program, a program for gifted children. Caproni graduated magna cum laude from Newcomb College of Tulane University in 1976 with a B.A. in psychology. She earned her law degree summa cum laude from the University of Georgia in 1979. While in law school, she served on the Georgia Law Review, was the winner of the Russell and Talmadge Moot Court competitions and was inducted into Order of the Coif.