That means workers at the bureau's tracing center often must call gun makers and sellers and go through paper files to identify the buyer of a gun linked to a crime.
"I basically would sneak up to his chambers at 7 o'clock in the morning and interview him and go through papers," the reporter, Stephen Wermiel, said last week.
The carpet, gray with geometric patterns, is a reproduction of a design by Josef Hoffmann — "I have the original, but it would be ruined," he said — and the couch and two armchairs in which he has coffee with guests, or sits and goes through papers, were also designed by Hoffmann.
General Atta Muhammad, 37, a tall, black-bearded man who led the military offensive, was receiving people and going through papers in his headquarters not far from the blue-and-turquoise-tiled shrine of Hazrat Ali, cousin and son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.
If the diplomats knew anything of the "harrowing prison hell" Knox was going through (as one paper put it), they are keeping those reports under wraps.
According to an anonymous source close to the process, the initial version of the paper went through peer review like any other paper.
Pick up the stack of paper and see if the staple went through the paper.
The post-mortem took place this morning when we went through the paper page by page alongside our rivals.
He went through that paper in the same way, impartially devoting as much attention to its pages, including the comics, as he had to the Post's.
"I went through our paper and didn't find anything wrong," Kinoshita says.
