Part of the Democrats' strategy was to scoop the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearings by selectively releasing damaging information in the last few months about their own fund-raising practices.

His label Red Records continues to selectively release some of the Reggae industry's most understated productions.

That has been a sore point with the players' union, which has argued that owners selectively release numbers that make their plight seem far worse than it is.

The main complaint from editors is that by selectively releasing information, the Government has prevented reporting of the scale of the military operation in Iraq and Kuwait.

The general rule of thumb is that a company cannot selectively release information so useful to an investor that he or she would immediately act on it.

"I think it's very unfair for committees of Congress who profess to be conducting fair and objective investigations to be selectively releasing documents with their spokespeople putting spins on them," he said.

"Ensign, can you program the stasis generator to selectively release each of these cortical masses in turn?"

The Government is also accused of selectively releasing merely 10 hours of the 2000 hours recorded of the Radia tapes.