The lawyer proposed several ways to correct the problems, but his warnings were largely unheeded, committee investigators say, and his memos, provide fresh evidence about when top Enron officials knew that there were problems with transactions.
But in history, anthropology, literature and media studies departments and beyond, a group of loosely connected scholars are taking a fresh look at office memos, government documents and corporate records, not just for what they say but also for how they circulate and the sometimes unpredictable things they do.
The mother of Richard O'Dwyer, who is facing extradition to the US on copyright charges over his website TVShack.net, has reacted angrily after a leaked memo exposed a fresh lobbying effort by Hollywood studios to counter public support for the British student.
Following weeks of public uproar over its role in the recent Cambridge Analytics 'scandal,' Facebook is now facing fresh ire over an internal memo that seems to prioritize user growth above users' real-life outcomes on the platform.
By now, you've probably seen the 'burning platform' memo penned by the fresh CEO of the world's largest mobile phone manufacturer, former Microsoft executive Stephen Elop (the existence of the brutally honest memo was first reported by TechCrunch Europe and later published in full by Engadget).
But that didn't stop Republicans from a fresh round of hyperbole before the memo's release.
And when in 1968, with the memo odes of August still fresh, only the Norwegians suggested that not all nations be admitted to the Olympic Games [in Mexico City], the majority of Olympic officials became uneasy, frowned and muttered something.
"This undermines competition in the grocery store industry and creates 'food deserts,' which limit resident access to fresh food," the council members wrote in a memo to colleagues and staff.
The 1800-word Brzezinski memo is also a breath of fresh air at a time when single-page summaries are the fashion in management.
Salmond's admissions shed fresh light on the accuracy of Michel's revelatory memo to James Murdoch on 2 March, released by the Leveson inquiry after Murdoch's evidence on Tuesday.
