In fact, as the Times account grudgingly documents, Feith's Counterterrorism Evaluation Group did nothing more than subject available classified data to an independent review.
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U.S. and Western intelligence agencies are reviewing classified data showing Israel most likely conducted a strike in the Thursday-Friday time frame, according to both officials.
Democrats hope this will bring the scandal closer to Mr Bush, though there is no evidence that Mr Cheney ordered Mr Libby to leak classified data.
Ignoring rules about classified data just because one wants to work at home or thinks the rules silly, as informed observers say commonly happened, is no longer tolerated.
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In the U.S., by contrast, the autonomy of the Internet may leave it vulnerable to state-sponsored enemies trying to steal classified data or shut down servers controlling energy or telecommunications.
Mr. Bush took the unprecedented step of commissioning an outside group of highly skilled and known skeptics to provide him with a second opinion informed by full access to all the relevant classified data and analyses.
Lee won back his freedom only after pleading guilty to a single felony count of mishandling national-defense information, which means he downloaded the equivalent of 400, 000 pages of classified data about the U.S. nuclear-weapons program onto an unsecured computer system and then transferred them to high-volume cassettes.
Since much of that data is classified, only a trusted intermediary could get American and Russian defense officials to work together.
Just like the corporate world, the intelligence community is facing the challenge of seamlessly integrating classified and internally collected information with open data from external sources.
Often the data streams that they operate on are not classified in nature, but the combination and aggregation of these streams using complex new algorithms may fall for example under the controls of ITAR.
According to the data of the Reports published so far, Cyprus is classified among the countries that fulfill the EFA goals at a great extent.
They might point out that U.S. intelligence agencies have routinely obtained reams of data from U.S. telecom companies and have many clever (read: classified) ways to know what you are saying or writing.
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