If derogatory information is received, the letters were filed in the official personnel folder of the employee concerned.
But you may also be carrying around a lot of derogatory information about yourself on that card that somebody else can read.
"We did not find derogatory information in our review," he said.
Approximately 1 percent of the requests are determined to contain possible derogatory information.
This consisted of 167 files and 17,750 pages, many of them containing derogatory information.
The clinics promise to help remove derogatory information from individuals' credit files, and charge as much as $2,000 for the service.
He was indicted on corruption charges and filed a suit accusing the Government of leaking derogatory information about him.
Sheila Heslin had included a note in the margin of the tasker, asking for derogatory information on all three men.
If any derogatory information is included, the report will also contain an agent's efforts to ascertain its truth.
Abdulmutallab's name had come to the attention of intelligence officials many months before that, but no "derogatory information" was recorded about him.