After the hearing, Mr. Agnifilo spoke to reporters in the courthouse hallway and elaborated on the memorandum and his comments in court.
Bear ,Stearns, whose officials are said to have written the memorandums, declined to comment, other than to say the suit's "allegations are unsubstantiated".
Mr. Lott's comments, in a memorandum to "Republican opinion leaders" that his office released to the press, were the latest in a drive by the senator to reassert his leadership.
Uncertainty Surrounds Memo Following are comments from President Bush's national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, about how the administration and the bureau handled a memorandum by an F.B.I. agent warning that Osama bin Laden's followers could be training at flight schools.
The US state department declined to comment on the memorandum.
The union had no immediate comment on the memorandum.
A Home Office spokesman said they could not comment on the memorandum.
Only two officials of Grace, based in Columbia, Md., could comment on the memorandum, and both were out of town today, company receptionists said.
The remarks, Mr. Bush's first public comments on the memorandums, came at a hastily arranged Oval Office appearance before reporters.
Furthermore, Ambac's legal counsel even marked up the offering document and made comments on the offering memorandum.
At the time, Obama officials said the memorandum inaccurately described Professor Goolsbee's comments, as well as Mr. Obama's position.
