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• n  a collection of papers containing detailed information about a particular person or subject (usually a person's record)

• On the "File and Dossier" approach to getting a prisoner to give up information: "The interrogator prepares a dossier containing all available information concerning the source or .
• The widely publicized dossier offered details of the attackers' identities, transcripts of chilling telephone-call intercepts, photographs of materials discovered in the boat that .
• The dossier is one of tyranny's most useful tools.

News & Articles

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• Outside View: The oppositon on the eve of Iranain elecitons
  Baltimore (UPI) Jun 13, 2013 This week's tightly controlled presidential election in Iran marks an opportunity for U.S. officials to make an evidence-based assessment of the Tehran regime and its most worrisome opposition. Data presented in the 2011 book "Terror Tagging of an Iranian Dissident Organization" provided impetus for U.S. policymakers to revise their dossier on the primary Iranian ...
  June 13, 2013 - Space War
• Pope Is Quoted Referring to a Vatican ‘Gay Lobby’
  Francis is said to have discussed a dossier he had received from his predecessor, Benedict XVI: “The ‘gay lobby’ is mentioned, and it is true, it is there.”
  June 12, 2013 - New York Times
• Pope Is Quoted as Acknowledging a Vatican ‘Gay Lobby’
  Francis is said to have discussed a dossier he had received from his predecessor, Benedict XVI: “The ‘gay lobby’ is mentioned, and it is true, it is there.”
  June 12, 2013 - New York Times

Quotes

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• Mehmood in Reuters
  It is our duty, my duty, to examine the dossier carefully, understand it and be truthful to myself, to my country and the neighborhood,Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi told Reuters.
• Alastair Campbell in Christian Science Monitor
  I defend every single word of the dossier, and I defend every single part of the process,added Campbell, who also denied that Blair had given George W. Bush his prior assent for the war.
• David Miliband in Reuters
  The document produced by John Williams ...... was not commissioned as part of the formal drafting process and was not used as the basis for the dossier the government subsequently published,Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.