Under pressure, the White House on Friday released a memorandum providing its first account of what happened with Mr. Sestak, arguing in effect that such political deal-making happens all the time in both parties.
For the excruciating details of this accounting boondoggle see our reports: "The Hartman Memorandum" and "The History & Rules of Setting Phone Rates in America".
The description of the memorandum was based on accounts from people who had read it.
She consented by memorandum, and by all accounts it was a happy marriage.
Over two days, Scott Muller, a member of Taubman's retinue of attorneys, parried with Davidge, suggesting the various reasons why the jury might disbelieve both him and the various notes and memoranda that supported his account.
Yesterday, a bureau official disputed the account in the memorandum.
While the Obama campaign said the memorandum was not an accurate account of the meeting, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Mr. Obama of hypocrisy.
An Andersen lawyer, Nancy Temple, suggested removing some of the firm's concerns about Enron's accounting from the memorandum, Mr. Criner said.
The memorandum provides the most detailed accounting of the events and decisions made aboard the Deepwater Horizon before the accident on April 20 that took 11 lives and caused a so-far unchecked torrent of oil to pour into the gulf, and comes as BP prepared an ambitious "top kill" procedure in a new effort to stop the leak.
Instead, they found that Ms. Temple's editing suggestion to David B. Duncan, the lead partner in the Enron account, on a single memorandum obstructed justice.
The New York Times published an account of the Office of Legal Counsel memorandum in October, citing people who had read it, and filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking access to it.
