Then came a dry spell in which it was widely rumored that, despite gathering thousands of documents, issuing subpoenas and following plenty of leads, investigators were going to issue a stinging rebuke to the Council but would not indict any of its members.
The Society of American Archivists and the Association of Canadian Archivists have supported that claim, issuing a joint statement condemning the foundation's gathering of the documents as "an act of pillage, which is specifically forbidden by the 1907 Hague Convention".
But if you're hearing voices or going through a psychotic episode, gathering those kinds of documents is an almost impossible task.
The party scene in Chapter 2, in the New York apartment rented by Tom Buchanan for the purpose of entertaining his mistress, Myrtle Wilson, becomes a sordid office gathering, with sheaves of documents scattered over the floor, drunken assistants disporting themselves inappropriately, loud music playing, and Shepherd valiantly clinging to his paperback amid the chaos.
In essence, this was Mr. Dopp's account: Mr. Spitzer, who was interviewed by Mr. Soares's staff while he was still governor, denied that he directed the gathering and release of documents about Mr. Bruno's use of state aircraft (although Mr. Spitzer said he gave an "overarching directive" that his administration should be forthcoming when responding to requests from the press).
She now counsels people to think of the process of gathering documents as a way to talk about estate issues.
That statement, also issued last month, was written by the Rev. Peter Gumpel, the German Jesuit in charge of gathering documents to support the beatification of Pius XII.
But they caution that the process can then require several months of gathering documents, answering questions and other work.
The Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy has said that Mr. Wu, 46, a former journalist who once taught at the Communist Party school, may be suspected of gathering documents related to the 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that were published in the West last January as "The Tiananmen Papers".
"I have stopped taking my notebooks and pens to meetings"). Short of gathering documents in the rare lawsuit, most employers neither have a policy on employee notes nor try to claim them, even when they could.
"We're in the process of gathering the documents they requested and submitting them," a Pediatrix spokesman said.
