The documents depict the party elders losing faith in Mr. Zhao and discussing various candidates to replace him.
American diplomatic cables provided by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to revealing secret government documents, depict Mr. Mubarak as occasionally expansive during visits by American leaders and Congressional representatives.
One scene described in the documents depicts the informant making deals to launder money during meetings with traffickers at a Mexico City shopping mall.
But details gleaned from interviews, court testimony and confidential documents depict a wayward officer, a father caught between official responsibility and family loyalty, and a Police Department that instinctively protects itself even if that sometimes means overlooking misdeeds.
The documents depict how China's rulers decided to order a military crackdown that killed hundreds of people in June 1989, and they suggest how close the country came during those protests to embracing political change rather than crushing it.
His friends call him the Verdant Vigilante, and few documents depict the uneasy intersection of civic activism and ordinary city life as well as the Excel spreadsheet he maintains, recording his "encounters" on the street.
Both government and defense documents depict Agriprocessors under Mr. Rubashkin as a chaotic enterprise continually teetering on the edge of financial failure, its accounts in disarray and Mr. Rubashkin taking bank loans to cover gaps and losses.
Numerous documents depict him as an outspoken supporter of the F.B.I. and particularly of J. Edgar Hoover, its longtime director, even toward the end of Mr. Hoover's tenure, as criticism of him mounted.
Interviews and police and military documents depict Kelley as a distressed — and at-times, violent — man in the years before authorities said he walked into the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Tex., and fired round after round into the congregation gathered for Sunday morning services.
The report, based largely on internal Blackwater e-mail messages and State Department documents, depicts the security contractor as being staffed with reckless, shoot-first guards who were not always sober and did not always stop to see who or what was hit by their bullets.
