Thompson, who is now the chief executive of the New York Times, released a statement rebuffing claims of wrongdoing by former BBC staff.
But the NATO officers at the briefing rejected the notion that airpower has been used indiscriminately, and General Riley, the British commander, said foreign troops were the victims of exaggerated claims of wrongdoing, some of them from Taliban fighters.
The ethics office does not have the jurisdiction to look into claims of wrongdoing if they involve only political staff members not on the government payroll; its jurisdiction is limited to the operations of the House of Representatives itself.
Critics say that many of the tax deals were signed when Mr Juncker was Luxembourg's Prime Minster between 1995 and 2013 Luxemboug's finance ministry yesterday rejected any claims of wrongdoing, as did Disney and Koch Industries.
"He continues to reject all claims of wrongdoing and we hold that the integrity of the court system was marred by the bias, slurs and factual inaccuracies in the election judgment".
Those initiatives were prompted, in part, by changes to the nation's employment discrimination laws in the early 1990s, which made it easier for workers to pursue claims of wrongdoing on the basis of race, age, gender and other issues.
A spokesman for No 10 said that ministers were aware in 2010 of the release of information pertaining to individual HSBC account holders, but never of claims of wrongdoing within HSBC.
