The staff instantly shifted into satire mode and contacted Lewin, who wrote the "Iron Mountain" document... John Kenneth Galbraith, who was privy to the deception, vouched for its authenticity in a pseudonymous Washington Post Book World review, writing, "My reservations relate only to the wisdom of releasing it to an obviously unconditioned public".
Curious, he knocked down the wall, and found a mountain of documents, piled almost ten feet high.
The prospect of British judges demanding further damaging disclosures in the future appalled the Americans.The sheer effort and cost of vetting the mountain of documents was also prohibitive.
The ISC is now also responsible for reviewing the work of the military's "defence intelligence" unit, which will add to the mountain of documents available for review.
Zamiruddin, a 24-year-old auditor from Rangareddy, a rural district, explained how he detected fraud in the mountain of documents he examined.
The main gates had been locked; sandbags and barbed wire were frantically being placed within; and a mountain of documents was burning in the courtyard.
He pointed out the report was comprehensive but "not final" as a team of 900 linguists were still sifting through a mountain of documents.
In early afternoon, Grady Irvin Jr., McPherson's lawyer, left with the jury this thought: "The state told you in the beginning that they had a mountain of documents and a mountain of evidence.
Chilcot says his committee has seen a mountain of documents but his inquiry's "evidence" page is blank – probably because it has been set up to hold transcripts rather than documents.
Most contemptuously of all, the White House on several occasions demanded that the investigators specify precisely, out of a mountain of documents they had not yet seen, which ones they wanted.The Clinton White House has seen nothing on this scale.
