Thiessen notes but does not rely on the more aggressive claims made in the (in famous 2002 John Yoo/Jay Bybee "Standards" memo, in which the OLC authors argued for expansive Commander in Chief powers, including the claim that the Constitution would permit the president to trump torture laws if necessary for national security.
Nancy Temple's e-mail message was not a crime: she was giving bona fide legal advice to a client who was writing a standard file memo, the kind of advice lawyers routinely give.
We need to hold people to a higher standard". But memos indicate that the continued flow of tax dollars into centers with lapsed licenses and known problems is now conscious city policy, as DHS and DCRA officials struggle to find thousands of new day-care slots for welfare reform children.
"Recommending an award that contains a letter of support signed by the same program officer appears to be a violation of ethical standards," the memo notes.
The umpire John Hirschbeck told The Associated Press that if he had applied the standard of the memo in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series last October, he would have been forced to eject Clemens after Clemens threw a fastball high and inside to Seattle's Alex Rodriguez in the first inning.
One's writing skills will be used in generating internal memos, standard operating procedures, test reports, business summaries, manuscripts for publication, and grant and patent applications.
A Sunday Times journalist told the Guardian how at one point he saw reporters sifting through a pile of standard civil service memos more than an inch thick, in the hope of unearthing something newsworthy.
Steve Bell, a former staff director of the Senate Budget Committee who is now with the Bipartisan Policy Center, said the programs identified in the memo are standard targets for Republican budget-cutters but of little significance in the government's financial picture.
It also told the newspaper that requests like the memo are standard in procurement negotiations between auto manufacturers and their suppliers.
Use standard margins for your memo.
