What about the lawyers who drafted the acquisition policy, who were supposed to be vetting all documents?
Vetting such documents, possibly as many as 50,000, would take huge amounts of time for MI5 and MI6, Cameron said.
An independent commission later found fault with producers for not adequately vetting the documents.
The investors contend that the bank did not sufficiently vet documents relating to loans in these pools.
Nor had he determined how his panel would vet such documents to see if they were forgeries, he said.
The film also stars the reliably vulpine Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes, the producer whose failure to vet the documents led to Rather leaving CBS after 55 years.
Mr. Morrell said the Pentagon had formed a team of 80 analysts from the military and the F.B.I. who are working around the clock to vet the documents for damaging information.
Mr. Rather has already been deposed, as has Carol Melton, who did legislative work for CBS and its former parent, Viacom, in Washington, and Erik T. Rigler, a private investigator hired by CBS to help vet the documents and other matters at issue in the disputed report.
The new office means Pangea3 will have lawyers working during United States business hours, on tasks that, because of logistics or American law, can be difficult to perform outside the country — like writing and vetting export control documents, military contracts and some patent reviews.
He carefully vetted every document he gave us, and then on top of that, asked that we only publish those which ought to be disclosed and would not cause gratuitous harm: the same analytical judgment that all media outlets and whistleblowers make all the time.
A decade of vetting mortgage documents had taught her plenty, she says.
