One proposal discussed in recent days by the agency's staff would require a lawyer not only to inform outside directors of evidence of fraud, but also to quit and disavow documents prepared by the lawyer for that company, agency officials said.
Yet their efforts are also informed by outside forces — in particular, by American missionaries.
Soon after, the Princeton history major was informed that outside reading was forbidden by the show's producers.
"While the review will be informed by outside perspectives on the science of hydrofracking, the decision-making will remain a governmental responsibility," he said.
In practice, however, this distinction often proves artificial, and even the most single-minded concentration on a text may be informed by outside knowledge, while many notable works of criticism combine discussion of texts with broad arguments about the nature of literature and the principles of assessing it.
But it also chastised the G8 for its lack of openness and inclusion: "Maintaining domestic support for overseas development assistance during these economically challenging times might be easier if the G8 reports were better informed by outside input and gained greater attention".
Yet on Monday afternoon, a 27-year-old State Department official, Jared Cohen, e-mailed the social-networking site Twitter with an unusual request: delay scheduled maintenance of its global network, which would have cut off service while Iranians were using Twitter to swap information and inform the outside world about the mushrooming protests around Tehran.
North Koreans have, therefore, become somewhat less afraid of their government and, at the same time, have become far better informed about the outside world.
Several, like Jeffrey D. McCausland, a CBS military analyst and defense industry lobbyist, said they kept their networks informed of their outside work and recused themselves from coverage that touched on business interests.
Jeffrey W. Schneider, a spokesman for ABC, said that while the network's military consultants were not held to the same ethical rules as its full-time journalists, they were expected to keep the network informed about any outside business entanglements.
