He said the lawsuit was currently in discovery, and that while there was currently no "smoking gun" document showing that quotas exist, the data is clear.
RS: Yeah, and in fact what I didn't know, but I only found out last year, because there was some document declassified, we finally have the smoking gun document where the CIA overthrew Mossadegh at the request of the British.
Hersh could not find a smoking gun document that confirmed the spying, but he spoke to enough people -- even Colby offered confirmation -- that on Dec. 22, 1974, he was able to write a story that commanded four columns on Page One of the Times, declaring, "Huge CIA Operation Reported in U.S. against Antiwar Forces, Other Dissidents in Nixon Years".
"He does not want the public to know what was discovered on his computers because it includes smoking-gun documents that conclusively establish that he fabricated the purported contract and that this entire lawsuit is a fraud and a lie," lawyers representing Mr. Zuckerberg and his company declared in court papers last August.
There are smoking-gun documents proving that church high-ups knew all about the problem and covered it up, Mitch says, but these documents are legally sealed and the Spotlight team must find a way of putting them on the record.
The Associated Press quoted a French official as saying that guns, documents and computers had been confiscated from the house where Mr. Aspiazu was arrested.
He added, "Unless there is a smoking-gun document, it can be hard for a jury to understand and for the government to prove.
"There doesn't have to be a memo" or other smoking-gun document, he said, "but it has to be something that's understood by managers, rewarded, approved.
The Smoking Gun posted documents that showed he had been charged with crimes in New Jersey in the last six years.
His involvement with drugs remains a mystery, but, in 2008, the Smoking Gun published documents revealing that Ross — who named himself after the Los Angeles drug dealer Freeway Ricky Ross — was once a Florida corrections officer with a perfect attendance record.
