Is his hold over his appointed officials so weak that he could not have enjoined them to keep a national security secret for a few weeks?
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Mr. JAMES BAMFORD (Author, "Body of Secrets: Anatomy of the Ultra-Secret National Security Agency"): My pleasure, Michele.
The just-released unclassified Key Judgments of a still-secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) confirm that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons as recently as 2002 or 2003.
The April issue of Wired magazine contains an unusual cover story about a big data center that the super-secret National Security Agency is building in rural Utah.
Within months after taking office, President Obama established an executive-branch cybersecurity coordinator and a new Cyber Command colocated with the super-secret National Security Agency at Fort Meade, MD.
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Government lawyers signaled that they would continue fighting to keep the information secret on national security grounds.
From a 1977 book entitled Top Secret: National Security and the Right to Know Halperin wrote with Daniel Hoffman.
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.
National Grid has made no secret of its desire to expand into the rapidly deregulating US market, where it sees significant growth opportunities.
The Mideast peace talks, which Bush lauds as the path to an independent Palestinian state, are "largely secret, " National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters Wednesday en route to the Middle East, but negotiations are moving forward.
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Sensitive Compartmented Information is information that not only is classified for national security reasons as Top Secret, Secret, or Confidential, but also is subject to special access and handling requirements because it involves or derives from particularly sensitive intelligence sources and methods.
When he returns to Turkey, he will do so on a diplomatic passport issued by a member of the National Intelligence Organisation, the Turkish secret service.
Most of the abuses were carried out by Mr Habre's dreaded secret police, the National Security Service or Direction de la Documentation et de la Securite (DDS).
Although the negotiations are secret, both the National Security Council and Israel's ambassador have been busy briefing congressmen, to prepare the ground should there be a settlement.
One of the judges on the special federal court that's set up to oversee secret government surveillance in national security cases resigned in protest after he learned that the court had been bypassed.
It's called the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA. It established a special secret court to approve national security warrants, and in the years since that court has approved 19, 000 of them and rejected just five.
In short order, the Sequoia supercomputer and its 1.57 million processing cores will transition to a life of top-secret analysis at the National Nuclear Security Administration, but until that day comes, researchers are currently working to ensure its seamless operation.
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Mr. Robinson was formerly Senior Director of International Economic Affairs at the Reagan National Security Council, and was a lead participant in formulating the economic dimensions of the comprehensive secret strategy employed by the President and his national security team to defeat and destroy the Soviet Union.
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Mr. Robinson was formerly Senior Director of International Economic Affairs at the Reagan National Security Council, and was intimately involved in the formulation of the economic dimensions of the comprehensive secret strategy employed by the President and his national security team to roll back the Soviet Union.
Echelon's existence was only recently confirmed by the US Government through the declassification of secret documents of the US National Security Agency (NSA).
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 February an outcry greeted news that Image Data, a small New Hampshire firm, had received finance and technical assistance from the American Secret Service to build a national database of photographs used on drivers' licences.
The inauguration weekend National Special Security Event will have the Secret Service leading a web of agencies pulling together security and transportation to handle the throng expected to see Obama take the oath of office on Monday at noon.
And that requires a national security staff and obviously -- Secret Service and other staff -- but other White House staff that travel with him, in addition to campaign staff who are helping him manage the events that he is engaged in.
Is all this information really that vital, really that sensitive to American national security that these should all be top secret?
In his position in the Homeland Security Intelligence division, he had access to a wide range of top-secret information, including vulnerabilities of national critical infrastructure.
Mohammed Fahim, the powerful Tajik defence minister, is said to be under pressure to lessen his grip on the country's security apparatus, and in particular, the National Security Directorate (NSD), the secret police.
"Trade secret theft threatens American businesses, undermines national security, and places the security of the US economy in jeopardy".
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