Tinker spokesperson Cornell Belcher commented to the paper, "We'd be interested in denouncing this sort of nonsense as well but, again, we haven't seen it," and eventually Tinker did acknowledge the document.
The Foreign Office yesterday acknowledged the documents were genuine but stressed they were only a snapshot of thinking at a particular time.
While Microsoft acknowledges the documents, it claims that they are merely engineering studies.
In a statement announcing the bill's passage, Mr. Aderholt said: "This legislation will help businesses around the nation by eliminating the confusion which arises when states refuse to acknowledge the integrity of documents notarized out of state".
Until Wednesday the administration had refused to acknowledge the existence of the documents.
Until Wednesday, the administration had refused to even officially acknowledge the existence of the documents, which have been reported about in the press.
Until this week, the Obama administration had refused to even acknowledge the existence of the documents.
Nevertheless, when two of the documents acknowledge the contribution of the stakeholders, the passages include the 'Consultant and facilitator from Government of South Australia'[ 1, 4].
"That same denial was on performance today," said Webb. "Once again, we have a governor that is retreating to the dark side of West Virginia's coal industry and refusing to acknowledge the true and documented impacts on the health of coal mining families and communities exposed to the fallout of mountaintop removal".
Citing sections of the Access to Information Act that allows departments to withhold information that they feel could be injurious to ongoing investigations and/or "the detection, prevention or suppression of subversive or hostile activities," CSIS refused to acknowledge if the documents VICE requested even exist.
