The idea is that those newly-empowered citizen activists will document on-the-ground examples of government failing to do its job -- say, by taking pictures of an unfinished school or underequipped clinic.
Towns had demanded more disclosure Friday after firing off an angry letter to Lewis about the bank's plans to not comply with some of his document requests on the grounds of attorney-client privilege.
The 656-page document, the 25th of its kind, summarises on-the-ground research of human rights practices in more than 90 countries.
The firm has withheld the e-mails and other documents from investigators on the grounds of attorney-client privilege.
Finally, thousands of relevant records, including 1,171 C.I.A. documents classified on the ground of national security, remain withheld.
But Chinese laws forbid the sharing of those documents, on the grounds that vaguely defined "state secrets" might surface.For a while, Sino-American negotiations seemed to be making some progress on a compromise.
Ellsberg had for a year and a half approached members of Congress – such as William Fulbright, George McGovern, Charles Mathias, and Pete McCloskey – about publishing the documents, on the grounds that the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution would give congressional members immunity from prosecution, but all had refused.
The commissioner has concluded that the Foreign Office was wrong to refuse my Freedom of Information Act request for the document and ordered it to release it, on the grounds of "the significant public interest in disclosure of the requested information".
Witnesses sometimes were called, but usually the judge ruled on the grounds of the documents and the testimony of each party.
The firm, K&L Gates, had opposed turning the documents over to Mr. Rather's lawyers on the grounds of lawyer-client privilege.
