In general, English law says documents of this kind are "privileged"—meaning that their contents, however incendiary, can be quoted with impunity.
"I am concerned that congressional access to prosecutorial decision-making documents of this kind threatens to politicize the criminal justice process," the president said then.
"When documents of this kind arrive at the C.I.A. from the policy community for clearance, it is the agency's practice to clear only the facts they contain -- specific names, dates and events," the spokesman said.
Routine document destruction of this kind can be effective in defeating civil lawsuits since plaintiffs lawyers must plead fraud against accounting firms "with particularity," which is very difficult to do without access to the accountants' work papers or to underlying documents which may be long gone by the time a civil suit reaches its discovery phase.
Will we expect to see a sort of Royal Mail-Private Compolicyolicy document of the kind recently released by the new government?
Nature has already done the proof-of-concept work: volcanic eruptions spew such particles into the air, and the cooling effect is well documented.Schemes of this kind may sound half-crazy; and, admittedly, they do tend to have some technical and aesthetic complications.
The Indian government is averse to publishing strategic documents of the kind regularly released by the United States, most European states and even China.
