Last year after the secret settlement and subsequent accusations were made public, Silver said he wouldn't engage in any other secret settlements using public money.
Even in "sieve city" as we came to know Washington because of its constant leaks, the accusations against him had remained unsubstantiated in public because the evidence was heard in secret by a grand jury.
The group said there was also a need for a "public domain defence" so that once a secret was in the public domain a person could not be prosecuted.
Senators are admitting they are incapable of speaking honestly and to the point in public, and can only do so in secret.
It is not an elected body, it does not involve itself in public disclosures, and it even has a quasi-secret budget in the billions of dollars.
Like the Hunchback of Notre-Dame or the Phantom of the Opera, Hugo lives a secret life in a public place a rubbishy room up in the clockworks, where he tinkers with inventions old and new.
Among the things the professor cited was that in his public appearances, Obama communicated with a cabal of fellow America haters in secret hand gestures.
Poles who back the Kaczynski approach have similar complaints: they find the world deaf to their concerns about moral decay, lingering secret-police influence in public life, corruption and kowtows to Moscow.
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He had said the settlement, which used public money, was kept secret in the interest of protecting the victims' careers.
It seems unbothered by the paradox: public internet chat is rehashed in top-secret reports, divulging the contents of which could result in a lengthy prison term.
So it's very difficult for them - for the government to explain in public why they're trying to keep something secret, because, you know, it's a secret.
In Islamabad the British high commission noted a secret public-opinion survey of 2005 that showed that Mr Musharraf, the West's Pakistani ally against terrorism, would lose the next election to Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party.
The American Senate inquiry criticised the CIA for implying in the public version of its dossier that the tubes probably were for making bomb materials, whereas in a second, secret version of the dossier shown to congressmen, it admitted that the Department of Energy had concluded they probably were not.
Despite failures, Nintendo's trials continued -- but in secret so that errors weren't subjected to public humiliation.
The Justice and Security Bill would create a mechanism allowing court evidence to be heard in secret where there is a need to keep information from the public on grounds of national security.
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He rejected the idea that government had been acting in secret FISA national security courts and elsewhere far from the public gaze, and he spoke out on the importance of protecting civil liberties and government accountability, even in the face of unprecedented threats to our security.
The trouble with this conspiracy theory is that Rick made no secret of his views in 2009, which he outlined in widely distributed public documents.
Documents released by WikiLeaks in 2010 showed that senior Pakistani officials consented to the strikes in secret to American diplomats, but at the same time condemned them in public.
How many of us harbor secret fantasies of such self-assurance that we would never dare avow in public!
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This notwithstanding serious questions raised about Mr. Islam's public biography, conduct in relation to Muslim outreach, the Coughlin affair and his top secret security clearance.
Shayler revealed secret documents to the Mail on Sunday newspaper in 1997, arguing he had a public duty to expose malpractice within the security services.
The media-savvy president has minimized public appearances during his stint in Cuba, where he has received most of his treatment in near secret.
The EU is basically a cartel, consisting of the 27 governments of the member states, who have concluded that it is easier to pass laws in the secret EU meetings with their colleagues than through their own national parliaments in the glare of public criticism.
In February, a government bureau sparked widespread public grumbling when it said soil-quality statistics were a state secret.
They said they decided to go public with their decades-old secret because they believed someone was about to release the information in an attempt to smear Domenici.
"Clash was an adult male living a prominent public life centered around the entertainment of toddlers, while at the same time he was, in secret, preying on teenage boys to satisfy his depraved sexual interests, " the Stephens suit alleged.
In 2005, he produced a 25-page secret memorandum that would radically alter the immigration debate to distort public perception of the issue.
The Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) is a semi-secret court that deals with national security deportations where some of the sensitive material cannot be disclosed in public.
In a separate scandal in the late 1980s, the security services were forced to open up to the public, and then destroy, secret files they had kept on more than 900, 000 Swiss citizens.
"It is a public secret that Habibie is a big spender when it comes to technology, " says a prominent banker in Jakarta.
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