That, experts said, suggests that anyone with specific knowledge of the transactions who sold Enron shares could also be held accountable.
Beam advocated the formation of small, secretive cells that would carry out attacks at the direction, but without the specific knowledge, of the movement leadership.
Further success came from hiring a consultant, paid for as and when needed, to bring specific knowledge of the sector to the business.
An American military official in Baghdad said that while he had no specific knowledge of the power plant contracts, any expansion of Iranian interests was a concern for the military here.
"I don't have any specific knowledge of the extent to which Clarence Norman didn't fulfill his obligation to our campaign, but my impression is that he didn't do a very good job.
However, two senior U.S. law-enforcement officials told me that, though they had no specific knowledge of the Mexican authorities using torture in the operation, they "wouldn't be surprised".
Specific knowledge of the Good Book is fading, but public interest in what it says remains alive, part of a larger curiosity about areas of life and experience beyond scientific reality.
But the official said the initial investigation suggested the perpetrators had specific knowledge of the material and the facility: "No broken locks, no smashed doors and no evidence of forced entry," he said.
Mr. Korenchuk, who said he had no specific knowledge of the Beth Israel case, added that while many health care centers sought to gain government money through fraud, improper-billing charges were also often simply errors made by hospital billing departments.
"Professor Triggs chose to make her remarks with no specific knowledge of the many steps the Australian government took to save the lives of Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, and with no professional experience in diplomacy and no specialist knowledge of the Australia-Indonesia relationship," the statement said.
Still, Mr. Sires said he had no specific knowledge of the illegal activity before federal agents informed him of it in 1997 -- though he acknowledged in the interview that "there was always a lot of rumors, everybody always talked about this and that".
