Yet now, according to this report, officials are exercising mass tactical amnesia over who signed off the most appalling abuses in the 'war on terror'.
Given the contents of the report in question (child abuse) and the impeccable reputation of the reporting official (Kompass), this was no small task, but among them, the emails show, the ethics and investigations offices figured out how to do it.
This is despite many campaigns demonstrating the opposite, which raises concerns for us that this report gives official validation to rightwing stereotypes of a "regressive" Muslim culture.
The government will report official figures on compensation next week.
However, this widely reported "official" number overlooks the millions of people unemployed for more than a year, nor does it count those who are working part-time and looking for full-time work.
This reported, low, official coverage may be related to using an over-estimate of the estimated number of births as the denominator for coverage calculations.
According to the USA TODAY report, officials realized they could not defend this and the NSA program.
According to the March report, officials at the Ministry of Industry were high on the target list.
"You can get whatever you want out of this report," one Pentagon official said today.
When crimes do get reported, official investigations often go no further than filing the requisite paperwork.
