He had initially been skeptical of reports of misconduct by U.S. troops.
Reports of misconduct pour in, along with petitions to amend old rules or institute new ones.
Donovan declined to discuss the reports from El Salvador on Thursday, but he has said that any credible reports of misconduct would be investigated.
Other leaked documents reveal reports of misconduct by numerous security guards on the island and alleged attempts to deter asylum seekers from complaining to police.
Two years later, the department's inspector general released new reports of misconduct, this time accompanied by more attention from the news media and outrage in Congress.
A spokesman for Mr. Silver, Michael Whyland, said on Sunday that Mr. Silver was committed to improving how the Assembly responded to reports of misconduct.
She heads a commission, appointed by Mr. Pataki, that is investigating reports of misconduct in the awarding of contracts by the School Construction Authority for New York City, and reports that the city schools artificially inflated attendance to win state aid.
On Wednesday, the state police denied that illegal firearms were used and asserted that all shooting was safely supervised by firearms instructors, with the former trooper who organized the event calling reports of misconduct "ludicrous".
The prosecutor argued that state law required that reports of misconduct be made in good faith, and that Mrs. Mitchell had been waging a vendetta against Dr. Arafiles since his arrival at the hospital in April 2008.
The files reveal that reports of misconduct by guards continued to occur during – and after – an Australian parliamentary inquiry into allegations of abuse on Nauru, where Wilson Security faced scrutiny over a number of claims, including that its guards spied on the Greens senator Sarah HanSarahoung.
