Based on documents and photographs inside the computer, the assigned user of the laptop likely belonged to the U.S. Army's 864th Engineer Combat Battalion, which has had several deployments in Afghanistan and worked on road projects around Kandahar.
Traditionally, the decision early on in the project life cycle is based on documents and not on model-based analysis.
The complaints arose following stories based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden.
It later acknowledged that the report was based on documents it could not authenticate.
His colleagues said the information was based on documents declassified 10 years ago.
The contentions are based on documents and evidence that have been amassed in litigation against the tobacco industry.
The book, much of it a transcription of the movie, is based on documents Mr. Heriot created, the suit alleges.
The articles were said to be based on documents drawn from Liu's business records, provided to Fairfax by unidentified sources.
The findings were based on documents found by Cristin Kearns, a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, in library archives.
"The Supreme Court upheld a verdict based on documents that had been certified as forgeries," he said.
As Seymour Hersh noted in The New Yorker, the claims were based on documents that had been forged so amateurishly that they should never have been taken seriously.
