"Yes, I'm repeating some of information that others have brought out," he said.
He added: "I cannot recall an example of such deliberate and repeated leaking of information in our time in the house".
But even the best cases were not that great: people, like me, who eventually got the insurance removed after months of frustrating calls and repeated faxes of information.
Spinwatch monitors the close links between finance and politics, but repeated Freedom of Information requests on the dinners and meetings with senior politicians such as Boris Johnson reveal nothing of the content of discussions.
The wartime press is respectful, producing gauzy TV interviews and square-jawed photo spreads, rectifying mangled presidential syntax and mindlessly repeating Minister of Information Ari Fleischer's celebration of the president as "resolute".
In fact, they found it so difficult to pry basic data out of Mr. Giuliani's government that they filed repeated Freedom of Information requests, and even took the mayor to court, where they generally won.
The list, released only after repeated Freedom of Information requests by the BBC, includes only dead nonrecipients and leaves it anyone's guess as to why they declined their awards.
Instead, the amygdala jump-starts the rest of the brain into analytical overdrive — prompting repeated reassessments of information in an attempt to create a coherent and understandable narrative, to understand what just happened, what threats still exist and what should be done now.
After repeated freedom of information requests, Mr Thomas says in a 20-page ruling given to The Independent that there is a clear public interest in seeing comments about drafts of the dossier between 11 and 16 September 2002, in the days before Alastair Campbell suggested changes.
