Gonzales took those notes with him when he became attorney general, and according to today's report, took them home in his briefcase on his first night as attorney general after he was briefed about how such material must be kept in specifically protected Justice Department safes.
In the years that followed, Gonzales stored this information and 17 other documents that the inspector general discovered in a safe outside his Justice Department office that also was not designated as protected for such top secret material.
The Lib Dem leadership has faced some internal criticism for supporting separate plans in the Justice and Security Bill to extend the use of so-called secret courts to hear sensitive intelligence material.
Asbestos trusts are a form of rough justice recognizing the inability of companies to pay the tens of billions of dollars of claims arising from the material.