GOOLSBEEGATE, as we are now expected to call it, creeps on apace with the release of the original Canadian memo that got it all started.
If ever there were an internal memo that said it all, a remarkably brief one from Rupert Murdoch to Fox News staff on Monday is it.
In a memo that got republished all over the web yesterday, Condé Nast CEO Chuck Townsend told his staff that it is time to "rethink" the entire business, warning that the company must "realign to be a successful business in an emerging economy that is now predicted to be painfully slow in recovering".
Jeff Bezos once sent a memo to Amazon developers that "all service interfaces, without exception, must be designed from the ground up to be externalizable… the team must plan and design to be able to expose the interface to developers in the outside world".
The memo argued that all Taliban and Al Qaeda detainees were illegal enemy combatants, which eliminated "any argument regarding the need for case-by-case determination of P.O.W. status".
On October 19th a brief memo announced that all three would be leaving.Given that Mr Ludwig fingered executives at head office, it may be that the mistakes in Japan were the product of a broad strategy that is now being rethought.
Sanea was a controlling boss — he liked to be called Sheikh Maan — and he strictly supervised communication, especially when it concerned the Gosaibis; in 2004, he issued a memo declaring that "all mail and or correspondence addressed to Uncle Suleiman or Saud al-Gosaibi should be forwarded to my office for my review first".
Yoo says it is his understanding that no policies or interrogation techniques changed as a result of the withdrawal of the torture memo, noting that all policies that were legal under the withdrawn opinions are also acknowledged as legal under the opinion that eventually replaced the withdrawn ones.
Just one week later, USCIS issued a second memo that reiterated all of the same evidence about Sudan's conflict — but this time it recommended termination.
Six months later, at the request of the Irish government, Merrill Lynch's investment arm wrote a seven-page memo that stated, "All of the Irish banks are profitable and well capitalised".
