His desk is laden with the thick, string-bound paper dossiers beloved of Indian civil servants and cordially loathed by everyone else.
There is no need for neighborhood informants and paper dossiers if the government can see citizens' every Web site visit, e-mail and text message.
The paper prepares a dossier of evidence for the police complaints watchdog.
But, when it was published, some British papers interpreted the dossier as meaning that British troops based in Cyprus would be vulnerable to an Iraqi attack.
Next, this resource use was manually verified and corrected by a research nurse using the electronic and paper patient medical dossiers (permit of the Hospital Ethical Committee was acquired).
Their dossier, "your paper umbilical cord to your child," as Seabrook calls it, was stored in the National Archives building, which had partially collapsed.
Two more phone calls were made, and then a nurse and a doctor came out and had a piece of paper that was a dossier on him.
In the course of several years, he had assembled a dossier of papers, filling three suitcases, that he said documented a business environment in which smuggling and tax evasion were routine.
He also praised the UK's notorious "dodgy dossier" as a "fine paper".
Presumably this is what the information commissioner had in mind when he hinted in September that the papers might include "evidence that the dossier was deliberately manipulated in order to present an exaggerated case for military action".
