Last month lawyers in the attorney general's office told the federal judge overseeing their release that two investigators assigned to the task were on vacation.
He has overseen the Horowitz estate in a way that would be familiar to those running the Johnny Cash estate, for example: finding previously unreleased recordings of artistic worth, and overseeing their release into a hungry market, the biggest project being the 42-disc collection of Horowitz's performances at Carnegie Hall between 1951 and 1978.
The deal was the federal government would run the library, the president would deed his papers to the people -- many of them took a tax deduction -- and the government would be responsible for preserving the materials and for overseeing their release.
Tony Badger of Cambridge University, asked by the government to oversee the release of the documents, thinks they have not yet produced a smoking gun.
Professor Tony Badger, its independent reviewer charged to oversee the release of hitherto hidden records, recognises that this "newfound transparency" will not easily sway doubters.
"We're particularly indebted to the government of Turkey, which intervened on our behalf to oversee the release of our journalists and bring them to Tunisia," Mr. Keller added.
The Baghdad judge appointed to oversee the release at Abu Ghraib, Abdul Hassan Shandal Issa, sweating in his heavy business suit in the 100-degree heat, said another provision called for the release of all non-Iraqi Arabs.
Now it has fallen to him to oversee the release of the same sorts of guerrillas; his task force aims to reintegrate former Taliban fighters into their communities, as part of a broader American effort to wind down the war by promoting Afghan political reconciliation.
Sony said yesterday that its entertainment chief, Michael Lynton, who helped oversee the release of films like "Casino Royale," had signed a new contract to lead the company's film and television studios until 2012.
The Syrian President, playing for time, agreed to a plan to establish a ceasefire; demilitarize the cities and towns; oversee the release of arbitrarily detained people; insure freedom of movement for aid groups and the press, and freedom of assembly and association for peaceful demonstrators; and foster conditions for political dialogue.
