"Like organized crime, we are working our way up in the DEQ [department of environmental quality] and expanding the scope of investigation," said Andrew Arena, the former head of the FBI's Detroit office and lead investigator on the Flint case.
At one point, the investigator noted that "an analysis of the engagement captured on the video is beyond the scope of my investigation and the subject of a collateral investigation".
Financers dictate the methodology and the scope of experiments and investigators have little power to deviate from the objective laid out before them.
The Senate investigators could, of course, defend themselves against charges of an incomplete study by pointing out the narrow scope of their investigation: The panel has jurisdiction over the intelligence community, but not over the White House.
As with any other biobank, the scope of institutional and investigator responsibility to disclose specific, aggregate, or incidental findings to individual participants (where linked), or participating communities, will need to be established in collaboration with IRBs and community stakeholders.
Addressing these complex questions is beyond the scope of a single project or investigator.
And despite CIA insistence that the program was limited in scope, Senate investigators conclude that the use of torture was much more widespread than previously thought.
Intelligence officials say they are still examining the scope of the N.S.A. practices, and Congressional investigators say they hope to determine if any violations of Americans' privacy occurred.
Investigators reviewing the scope of Mr. Spitzer's involvement with prostitutes said that just in the past year he had had more than a half-dozen meetings with them and had paid tens of thousands of dollars to the ring, one law enforcement official said.
Investigators reviewing the scope of Mr. Spitzer's involvement with prostitutes said on Tuesday that just in the past year he had had more than a half-dozen meetings with them and had paid tens of thousands of dollars to the ring, one law enforcement official said.
