The documents, procured from a spy in the German Cryptographic Service, Hans-Thilo Schmidt, included the Enigma settings for the months of September and October 1932.
Sometimes, the documents are procured through the 1966 Freedom of Information Act, which allows private citizens access to documents produced by federal agencies.
In April 2004, according to internal Defense Department documents recently procured by the A.C.L.U., three marines in Mahmudiya used an electric transformer, forcing a detainee to "dance" as the electricity coursed through him.
Another damaging incident was Foraker's claim, based on documents he procured that turned out to be forged, that Democratic gubernatorial candidate James E. Campbell had supported the adoption of a ballot box made by a company in which Campbell supposedly had a financial interest.
New evidence linking Russia with the death of Litvinenko was recently produced by his widow, Marina, who procured documents allegedly showing the FSB security service seized a container of polonium in the weeks before the poisoning.
We know about this Syrian-North Korean-Iraqi network thanks to documents and interviews procured in Iraq after the fall of Saddam.
At the time of her original arrest, police found a stockpile of sedatives and alternate identity documents, which she procured over a number of years.
Having procured a document written in incomprehensible Hungarian jargon, the young Syrians told a crowd of compatriots that anyone who signed it, and then claimed asylum in the cubicles, would not be returned to Serbia.
Just two years later, the numbers had more than flipped; forged and counterfeit travel documents detected at international borders dropped to 29percentt, while the number of illegally procured genuine documents had shot up to 71percentt of the total.
Mr. Gormley, a Republican whose committee has procured 100,000 documents and taken 160 hours of depositions, has forced Mr. Verniero to say, 578 times by Mr. Gormley's count, "I do not recall," "I do not remember" or "I do not recollect".
