He also argued Haroun never intended to obstruct and there was no obstruction.
Agency officials deny that the C.I.A. intended to obstruct any investigation.
Indeed not.Mr Abbas called on America to prevent a repetition of assassination bids which, he said, were "intended to obstruct and sabotage the political process".
It is true that the charges which were found proven as the basis of the suspension did not state in terms that petitioner intended to obstruct justice.
At a news conference in Moscow, President Dmitri A. Medvedev said Russia in no way intended to obstruct peacekeeping in Afghanistan by the American-led coalition.
Morris also rejected any suggestion the journalists had been out of line, saying they did not "obstruct or intend to obstruct any public servants in performance of their duties".
He also was disciplined under the collective bargaining agreement "for attempting to cover up his violations of the program by engaging in a course of conduct intended to obstruct and frustrate the office of the commissioner's investigation".
Still, the judges overturned the convictions, saying that the prosecutors had failed to prove the specific charge that the officers had intended to obstruct a grand jury when they misled investigators.
On Friday, Ms. Adlong provided testimony that challenged some of the government's evidence that Mr. Duncan intended to obstruct an official inquiry when he invoked the firm's document policy.
Health Minister Ana María Pastor said that the government did not intend to obstruct such research but that, under revisions in a law on assisted reproduction, the research must be supervised by the national government.
