The statement added: "Blackwater has been informed that the State Department has no objection to it providing information to the committee.
Mr. Brooke said that the Iraqi National Congress was also recently informed that the State Department had finally concluded a 20-month audit of its finances, now giving the group, in effect, "a clean bill of health".
Asabe Kwambura, the school's principal, said in an interview that Borno's education commissioner asked for more police protection at the school but was informed that, under the state of emergency, the state government no longer controlled security personnel.
A Florida official said that on Wednesday, shortly after Gov. Charlie Crist asked the federal government to coordinate flight plans for critically injured Haitians and shoulder some of the costs, which he said were in the millions of dollars, the state was informed that the airlift had been suspended.
State security was informed that the couple had suddenly died the night before from typhus (an epidemic was sweeping the city).
Under this defense, persons who participated in the extraordinary renditions program would be entitled to defend themselves by stating that they were informed that the program was legal.
In a letter late last month, the state's education commissioner, Lucille Davy, informed Dr. Glascoe that the state would not renew his three-year contract unless he met certain conditions within six months.
Mr. Fagan said that he had told Mr. Ortiz about a year ago that his federal claim was dead but that he had not yet informed him that the state case also appeared at an end.
In a scathing report, the commission informed Gov. Patrick J. Quinn that the state's flagship university was in a "full-fledged crisis purely of its own making," the result of a widespread culture of "cynicism and crass opportunism" that went back a decade or more, and that the overall scheme was "perhaps unparalleled among universities in its level of formality and structure".
