It is chilling to think that Dennis C. Vacco would use such untrustworthy information as a basis for requesting that the police be sent to voters' homes for verification purposes (news article, Dec. 11).
Charlie Savage reported in The Times that there is wide agreement in the administration "that it is lawful to target Mr. Awlaki," but disagreement about the basis for requesting dismissal of the lawsuit.
(c) A requester who seeks expedited processing must submit a statement, certified to be true and correct to the best of that person's knowledge and belief, explaining in detail the basis for requesting expedited processing.
It contained the subject line, "Request for Attorney General" and a subheading, "Basis for Request".
A client may use this information as the basis for metadata requests using the Disseminate verb.
The agencies now rely on a 10-year average of firefighting costs as the basis for budget requests.
While the letters do not specifically identify the target of the eavesdropping requests, Mr. Mukasey said that the Police Department had sought authority in one of them to eavesdrop on "numerous communications facilities" without providing an adequate basis for their requests.
It also found that the agency, in some cases, "had not rendered a final decision on a timely basis" for certain requests for confidential treatment "thus affording certain filers de facto confidential treatment of their 13F reports".
The basis for these requests was new information received by the activists about an email sent by the judge who authored the dissent and judicial discipline proceedings related to the email.
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, committee leaders listed more than a dozen episodes, several of them violent, in the past six months that they said formed the basis for repeated requests by the diplomatic mission in Libya for more security resources.
