The then attorney general, Robert Kennedy, authorised it to spy on the civil rights leader, and the FBI director, J Edgar Hoover, went so far as to bug King in bed.
In practice, a policy engine should only effect actions on components that authorise it to do so, which models the real-world in the sense that only those who 'own' an entity can control it.
Even for a large company, £700,000 is a not inconsequential sum of money, and it is extraordinary that the Chief Executive should authorise its payment on the basis of such scant information.
Made from a secret formula including yeast and protein, it was authorised for use on civilians by the Israeli attorney-general and the army's medical corps.
AMSA said it was not authorised to comment on the incident, and referred calls to the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
A railway to serve Deeside was authorised on 16 July 1846, but it was decided to wait for the Aberdeen Railway to open first.
It is not known who authorised the raid on Atkinson's house or whether Todd and Green were aware it was happening.
Legislation is not limited to what is strictly necessary where it authorises, on a generalised basis, storage of all the personal data of all the persons whose data has been transferred from the European Union to the United States without any differentiation, limitation or exception being made..
Nor does it authorise boarding ships on the high seas; China feared this would enable America to throw its weight about too much.Having long insisted that the North Korean nuclear issue was better handled outside the UN, China is livid that Mr Kim brushed aside repeated warnings not to test.
Lord Justice Leveson asked Mr Morgan: "The only person who would lawfully be able to listen to the message is the lady in question or somebody authorised on her behalf to listen to it.
