Mr. Poindexter told Congress in 1987 that he destroyed the order because he regarded it is as a politically embarrassing document that described the arms sales as little more than an arms-for-hostages exchange.
It's a predictably embarrassing document, and I'm simultaneously appalled by and nostalgic for the self it evokes.
And they persuade a judge to suppress a confidential but embarrassing document which has fallen into journalists' hands.
Trafigura's lawyers, Carter-Ruck, produced an extraordinary legal document, whereby they persuaded a judge to not just suppress a confidential and potentially embarrassing document, but also to deny anyone even mentioning the existence of the court proceedings and court order.
Harold Nicolson, then the most junior of clerks in the FO, was sent hastily back to the German embassy with orders to retrieve the embarrassing document and substitute the original declaration of war.
"It's one of the most embarrassing documents I've ever seen," Mr. Mica said.
"Meticulous as he was, the general wasn't content just to collect these embarrassing documents, he also analysed their contents over 112 pages," the paper said.
In an embarrassing gaffe, a document was sent out by mistake to journalists explaining that the party is looking at "how the richest 10% of people, those earning over £50,000, could make a further contribution" after the next election.
Obama administration officials were trying on Friday to play down an embarrassing release of documents that suggest just six Americans managed to enrol for health insurance on the launch day of the troubled Obamacare website, insisting the figures do not represent "official totals".
