The official who disclosed the document, Mr. Milhollin said, is "concerned that Saddam is going to get the bomb".
The court said it saw no reason to prohibit disclosing the documents sought under the Freedom of Information request.
Some plaintiffs and their lawyers, seeking to bolster their cases, asked the court to disclose the documents.
The Met argues that disclosing the documents could "damage future police investigations and hinder the way in which the NPOIU can operate in the future".
Further Questions for Discussion: -Why is there so much pressure to disclose the documents examining bin Laden and Al Qaeda and their connections to the United States?
But in the chat logs, he suggested that he was disclosing the documents because of concerns about the legality and ethics of the Iraq war and other American government actions.
Last year, a Federal District Court judge rejected the city's efforts to avoid disclosing the documents, which include hundreds of field intelligence reports by undercover investigators who infiltrated and compiled data on protest groups.
But to hope to have that effect, we would have needed to disclose the documents when they were current, before the escalation – not five or seven, or even two, years after the fateful commitments had been made.
Mr. Stupak said he thought the company was trying to overwhelm the C.S.B., and the committee, by giving them thousands of pages marked that way so that they could not disclose the documents.
