Even with the release of such documents, the questions are not easily answered, since only the agency knows what remains classified.
The memorandum and related test results were obtained by the consumer groups under a law governing the release of official documents.
Similar cases have foundered when intelligence agencies blocked and delayed the release of documents.
As described below, the narratives presented have been influenced by the release of previously unseen documents in the 1980s.
President Fox ordered the release of previously classified documents concerning the 1968 massacre.
Students have the right to access their records, dispute record keeping and limited control over the release of documents to third parties.
If there was a release of documents comparable to the one made by the administration earlier this month, no one around here recalls it.
Most governments in the free world have far more stringent controls on release of classified documents.
It would be even better if the courts ultimately compelled the release of these and other documents.
Democrats portrayed the release of documents as the next best thing to hearings.