In addition to making an aide available to provide details of Mr. Romney's meetings, which included talk of the euro zone crisis and other international concerns, the campaign sent out short general memos, one of which described Mr. Romney's get-together on Thursday with Foreign Secretary William Hague, saying it dealt with issues like the importance of free trade.
On Thursday, Trump confirmed in an interview with NBC News's Lester Holt that, even before he received the Deputy Attorney General's memo, he had already made up his mind to dismiss Comey.
His appeal, described on Wednesday by four congressional officials, was made to Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, whose memo was used to justify Mr. Comey's abrupt dismissal on Tuesday.
In general, the memo is most concerned with the extension of the Theater Commander's responsibility, which now includes "the punishment of other crimes committed in Germany since 1933, in addition to violations of international law in the course of the present war" (p.2).
Attorney General Jeff Sessions memo April 11, 2017 by elisefoley on Scribd.
"[Redacted] stated that OGC's delay in rendering payment of [redacted] claim amounted to a reprisal given other [redacted, believed to be interrogators] were paid money for similar legal fees," the inspector general's memo says.
According to the inspector general's memo, an official in the CIA's Office of General Counsel "explained that those who were not involved in conduct relevant to the [Senate] report have been reimbursed.
A redacted copy of the 2013 FDIC inspector general's memo seen by Reuters said investigators were unable to determine exactly which files had been extracted from agency computers.
The Inspector General's memo expressed similar concerns with respect to the accuracy and reliability of information generated by U.S. EPA contractors.
