His comments suggested that Andersen's lawyers succeeded in portraying the document destruction as innocent.
Andersen has portrayed the document shredding as a localised event that was carried out without sanction from its Chicago head office.
Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, Mr. Gates portrayed the documents as "a mountain of raw data and individual impressions, most several years old" that offered little insight into current policies and events.
While the documents portray the prison as an interrogation facility, some interrogations focused on gathering information unrelated to terrorism.
The documents portray the Wisconsin Club for Growth as the coordinated campaign's hub of operations, spending money on ads and acting as a "dark money" bank to dole out undisclosed funds to other groups to do the bidding of the Walker camp.
It remains to be seen if this will be nullified as a political issue, but the government has portrayed the new document, Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: Government Action Plan, as a big step forward on the issue.
While the newspapers portrayed the classified documents as indicating that the N.S.A. obtained direct access to the companies' servers, several of the companies — including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Apple — denied that the government could do so.
He sought to present an honest visual document, to portray the lifestyle as he'd known it.
The NYCRC has tried, in both rhetoric and documents, to portray the "Brooklyn Arena and Infrastructure Project" as not only funded by governmental contributions, but backed directly by those governments.
I have a stack of court documents from Arlington that portray the "sordid and shocking tale" of the Rangers stadium, as one lawsuit puts it.
