The FSA and CFTC quote from emails written by Barclays' traders to their counterparts at these other banks who were requesting this help in rigging markets.
On October 10, Britain's Financial Times printed an opinion piece that contained an arresting claim: The author said he had personally conveyed a memo from the Pakistani Embassy in the U.S. to the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, requesting U.S. help to prevent a military coup.
That is because a computer can be used to help predict which documents within a large population of information are legally required to be produced to requesting parties during litigation.