If that sounds a funny sort of privatisation, it is all the funnier because seemingly nobody, unless this is a very well-kept official secret, knows how the savings bank is going to operate from 2007 onwards, even while it is still under state management.
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At one of its major 2008 conferences, for instance, the ACLU invited Daniel Ellsberg, the former Rand Corporation official who leaked the top secret Pentagon Papers regarding US involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times in 1971 to serve as it keynote speaker.
From 1998 to 2002, the SEC alleges, IBM employees in South Korea paid off 16 South Korean government officials, including stuffing cash into shopping bags and IBM envelopes and handing them over in secret meetings in parking lots near an official's office and home.
Just in case you haven't heard, we're letting you in on a little secret here: Engadget German is the official blog of IFA 2009, so we figured we'd give you a small taste of what's going down in Deutschland in case you've yet to make it over.
The official said that the former director of Iraq's secret police has died since his testimony in a hospital.
This includes the final "Secret Stage" on Day 4 that precedes the official finish line at land's end in San Jose Del Cabo.
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Energizer hasn't exactly been keeping this one much of a secret, but the battery maker has now finally gotten official with its much-vaunted Zinc Air Prismatic battery technology, which it says will allow electronics manufacturers to make devices that last longer and are smaller and lighters.
ENGADGET: Energizer introduces thin, powerful Zinc Air Prismatic battery
Its full details are still secret, but some of its points have been quoted on official websites.
The report, presented to Ms Banda last Wednesday following an official inquiry, alleged that government ministers and other senior officials held a number of secret meetings aimed at preventing Ms Banda - then vice-president - from assuming the presidency in accordance with the constitution, our reporter says.
Obama directed the Justice Department to provide access to the secret document to members of the Senate and House intelligence committees, an administration official said Wednesday.
If confirmed, the remarks would be the first official North Korean response to a US statement last week that Pyongyang had admitted to developing a secret nuclear weapons programme in contravention of a 1994 accord.
An intelligence official in the Middle East, who spoke on condition of anonymity in order to disclose information about a secret military operation to the media, confirmed that Israel launched an airstrike in the Syrian capital early Sunday but did not give more precise details about the location.
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