There certainly is a culture of collaborative writing at the State Department, Mr. Johnson acknowledged: memos are drafted, massaged, passed up the chain for comments and then approved.
Ijaz claims the memo was drafted by Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's former ambassador to Washington, and addressed to the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen.
Since the memo was drafted months ago, the agency's chairwoman, Mary L. Schapiro, assured Congress that the Lehman case remained "under investigation and analysis".
The Hunt memo was drafted by Hunt and Smith to be sent to Cameron as part of a process of providing him with fortnightly political updates.
For the first criterion, she relied on figures and descriptions from the office of Ms. Gati, whose memo was drafted two days later: There can be little question that the specific listed acts have taken place in Rwanda...
Feinstein pressed Wray on the extent to which he was involved in the "Torture Memos," which were drafted by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo and signed in August 2002 by Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee.
BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK Despite Doubts, Lehman Charges Still Possible | Suggestions that an investigation into the collapse of Lehman Brothers could end without any enforcement came from a months-old memo that was drafted by staff members.
The suggestion that the high-profile case could end in a whimper came from a memo that was drafted by the agency's enforcement staff members, the people briefed on the matter said.
In August, The Huffington Post's Ryan Grim reported on an internal memo that was drafted at that meeting that outlined the policies that would not be allowed into any final version of health care reform.
Addington either drafted the memos himself or advised those who were drafting them.
