Earlier this month CIA director Panetta banned the use of contract - that is,non-employee - interrogators and ordered the agency's network of secret prisons to be shut down.

VOA: standard.2009.04.17

This year's vote lacked the suspense of some previous elections, because all five candidates were unopposed and succeeded in getting the two-thirds majority required in the first round of secret ballots.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

Susan Larson reads a scene from Nancy Drew's first adventure, "The Secret of the Old Clock": "Nancy struggled to get away.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

But the next year, the Academy decided to keep the names of the winners a secret until the awards ceremony.

VOA: special.2009.02.20

He says the released documents do not include any top-secret reports or names of informants or information like troop movements.

VOA: special.2010.07.31

She was twenty-four when she wrote "The Secret of the Old Clock" and other early Nancy Drew books.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

If you tell about something that was supposed to be a secret, we say you let the cat out of the bag.

VOA: special.2009.09.27

They said the church had a secret organization to take the lives and property of those who questioned the power of the church.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

I imagine there are few people living today who ever knew the secret of that window.

VOA: special.2009.10.31

It is the creative center of the secret Manhattan Project, which made the explosion possible.

VOA: special.2009.06.14

On the same evening that the spirit of Leeuwenhoek tells me the secret of the perfect lens, I find the diamond I need to create it.

VOA: special.2009.07.25

Gold,and the power of a woman's will, had brought the secret to the princess.

VOA: special.2009.04.18

But, you see, nobody knew the secret of how stupid he really was.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

Mister Oppenheimer had directed one of America's most important secret scientific projects.

VOA: special.2009.06.14