"The commissioners were certainly told of the document requests and what the findings were," Mr. Felzenberg said.
Later, in the early 1990's, two members of a Hong Kong government commission that concluded the tragedy could not have been avoided, expressed concern when told of the internal Cutter documents.
The butler's leaked documents told of corruption in the Vatican, infighting over the running of its scandal-mired bank, and painted a picture of an administration where some clerics were more interested in their careers than serving the pope.
The board was told to document "the full history of the adjudicatory proceeding".
Both Arab and Chinese documents tell of a southern land, but with such inaccuracy that they scarcely clarify the argument.
Colonial officials were told that crates of documents sent back to the UK by sea could be entrusted only to the "care of a British ship's master on a British ship".
They ignore captured Iraqi documents that tell of inhuman attacks on my people, among them an audiotape of Saddam Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid boasting of his plans to use chemical weapons against the Kurds.
In Mr. Fredrickson's first book, "The Inner Civil War: Northern Intellectuals and the Crisis of the Union" (1965), he dug through mountains of original documents to tell of the dilemma abolitionists faced during the war: whether to criticize the Lincoln administration for lagging in its antislavery commitment or to remain silent in the hope that a Northern victory would free the slaves.
This time around, however, the board also published documents that tell of the employees' misgivings in their own words:"For the last ten years, maintenance budget allocation has been controlled centrally by a 'top down' allocation of funds," consultants investigating frequent breakdowns at the refinery wrote in 2002.
The jury was told 500,000 documents and pieces of evidence have been disclosed to the legal teams so far.
