Despite video footage obtained by the Guardian showing one senior police officer telling protesters that they could make their way home without obstruction, in his judgment Snow said: "At no points was any express or implied promise made by the police that the protesters would not be arrested".
It is understood that rather than outright obstruction, some individuals have been dragging their feet.
They were destroyed as a firm, even before being found guilty of obstruction of justice in June.
Yet the job is unfinished, thanks to Mr Hussein's obstruction, evasion, threats and lies.
The partner who led the Enron account, David Duncan, has admitted that he is guilty of obstruction of justice, but he is expected to be treated leniently after agreeing to turn state's evidence.Tyco then found itself at the centre of rumours.
That was Andersen's response to the announcement on March 14th that one of the world's largest accounting firms has been indicted for the obstruction of justice in the Enron affair.
Besides, she has not been personally implicated.The president's real worry is that public anger plus parliamentary obstruction will thwart her plans for her second term, the most important of which is a correction of the economic course that she set in her first.
In January, federal officials charged Dean Bauer, an old friend of Mr Ryan and the man he appointed to root out corruption in the secretary of state's office, with racketeering, mail fraud, obstruction of justice and making false statements.
This leaves plenty of room for disappointment and therefore for obstruction from the poorest countries if a broader deal looks likely.For the moment, an agreement still seems an awfully long way off.
That makes it tempting for him to blame his embarrassment now not only on Republican obstruction but also on the resistance of vested interests, such as health insurers.And yet it is not primarily the special-interest groups that have blocked his plans for health reform.
She faces charges including obstruction of justice, making false statements to federal officials and perjury.
