Divided into various core collections; each contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters, and other secret material.
The directive, a memo sent to federal agencies on 19 August but only posted online today, allays fears in the academic community that nongovernment microbiologists might be ordered to stop work for 24 hours and conduct an inventory.
One memo in particular, signed by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, declared that "all existing conflicting directives, memoranda, or field guidance regarding the enforcement of our immigration laws and priorities for removal are hereby immediately rescinded".
Hale learned about the new directive several months ago, in a memo circulated to prisoners.
"However, I'm not saying how the I.R.S. would treat such a claim, whether it would be honored or denied, and the field directive" — Mr. Miller's memo — "doesn't speak to that, either," he said.
The memo's directive to prosecutors to deny "cooperation credit" to corporations that fail to disclose individual-level violations may turn out to be more bark than bite, although corporate defendants certainly cannot count on that.
"They seem to have believed that they could just let those districts stew in their own juices, just send them a memo or directive once in a blue moon and then let them sink or swim on their own," Mr. Gill said.
"Any civil or criminal corporate matters initiated after September 9 are now being pursued in accordance with the directives in the Yates memo," DOJ spokesperson Patrick Rodenbush said.
But this past weekend the Washington Post exposed a high-level ICE directive and internal ICE memos that reveals how wide the chasm is between administration rhetoric and on-the-ground reality.
He and his administration will have to locate and override all of the policy memos, directives and executive orders that have redefined and condoned such practices.
They will have to locate and override all of the policy memos, directives and executive orders that have redefined and condoned torture and other abuses.
