The word "memos" is correct and frequently used in written English.
Memos can be used to communicate brief messages between people or business units within a company. For example, "All employees must read the memo distributed by the Human Resources department."
Blumenthal sent Clinton more than two dozen memos related to Libya, some of which she passed along to her staff.
In an earlier session, Lord Owen delved into medical detail about the 20th century's political leaders, from Winston Churchill dictating memos to his secretary while he lay naked in the bath, a common manifestation, apparently, of bipolar disorder, to John F Kennedy concealing a life-threatening disease from voters all the way through to Blair's messianic hubris.
A cache of secret memos sent by Prince Charles to senior UK ministers has finally been published, following a 10-year freedom of information battle between the Guardian and the government.
Related: Read the Prince Charles 'black spider' memos in full The government has in any case closed off this route of enquiry.
He was alleged to be sending to ministers a stream of letters, dubbed the black spider memos because of his scrawly handwriting, but the public were not allowed to read them, or even know how many he was writing.
Related: The Guardian view on the black spider memos: Prince Charles has sacrificed political neutrality | Editorial Lawyers had been hired by Cameron's ministers and were due to go to a freedom of information tribunal later this year to argue in favour of keeping this batch of letters concealed.
America's image is certainly not helped by revelations from the declassified CIA memos describing torture through interrogation techniques that included soldiers threatening to rape or kill the prisoners' family.
Leaked memos suggested that Whitehall was discreetly considering grisly specifics, such as arbitrarily cutting some disabled adults' stipend, simply because they happened to be young.
Evans first lodged a request to see memos between Charles and ministers in various departments when the Freedom of Information Act was in its infancy, coming into effect under Tony Blair at the start of 2005.
The letters – 27 memos to and from the heir to the throne, the prime minister and ministers in six government departments – relate to an eight-month period from September 2004 to April 2005, and were the subject of a Freedom of Information Act request by the Guardian journalist Rob Evans.
It should also disclose the OLC's other memos relating to the targeted-killing program – including the memos that relate to targets who are not American citizens.
