Insofar as this odious chapter in Mr. Halperin's past bears directly on the three aspects of his candidacy that will likely determine whether he is deemed suitable for such a highly sensitive Defense Department post -- his judgment, his policy predilections and his integrity and trustworthiness -- the Committee must insist upon the truth, and nothing but the truth, about the Halperin-Agee connection.
There are political scientists teaching at elite universities in the United States who are more than qualified to advise the State Department on sensitive diplomatic issues.
One would think that the Commerce Department would be sensitive to these strategic implications -- if not to those of a military character, at least to those that are likely to reduce opportunities for other, more prudent, American business sales there.
So SAPs, or special access programs, as they're called, are the Defense Department's most sensitive programs.
It said any contentious and sensitive issues are referred to the department's political board for a final decision.
"The publication of SCR overview reports is a sensitive and complex matter, " said a Department for Education spokesperson.
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The guidelines allow the department to bypass prior notification in certain sensitive cases.
The newspaper said that for much of last October, the State Department sent couriers around the world with sensitive information on paper and limited access to the computers in question.
But the Interior Department says that it is avoiding zones with sensitive cultural and biological artifacts while it is also fully considering transmission needs.
Reportedly, his association also helped someone affiliated with such a group to gain a political appointment to an exceedingly sensitive post: "policy director" of the Department of Homeland Security's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection division.
July 2006: US media reports that intruders penetrate the US Department of State (DoS) networks, stealing sensitive information and user login credentials, and install backdoors on numerous computers, allowing them to return to the systems at will.
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"I appreciate the department's recognition that the corridor designation issue is sensitive for state regulators, " says Sam Ervin IV, chairman of the electricity committee for the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners.
In one of its most sensitive police "pattern or practice" investigations to date, the Justice Department is now working to get Los Angeles city officials to sign a consent decree authorizing a third party to monitor the city's Police Department and imposing other safeguards.
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Vector's programs are still "too sensitive to discuss, " say former officials, who voice concern that the State Department has provided general support funds which Vector can use for whatever purpose it chooses .
By placing Dr. Younger on leave in the wake of the hard drive debacle, Richardson has falsely implied that this widely respected physicist bears responsibility for the repeated failure of Department officials to implement his recommended changes at the lab and for the sensitive hard drives going missing.
The CIA and the FBI have promised Congress they will send the new department their "finished" intelligence reports, but they resist divulging raw data and sensitive sources and methods.
The hundreds of experienced monitors from the Justice Department and observers from the Office of Personnel Management heading to the polls are trained for a sensitive mission: wading into sometimes tense and strongly partisan surroundings under intense scrutiny.
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