Sentence examples for briefing about the program from inspiring English sources
"With 50 million older people in this country, and 10,000 more reaching retirement age every day, we cannot afford to tolerate financial predators or practices that victimize our elder citizens," Richard Cordray, the bureau's director, said in a briefing about the program.
From the first time Feinstein was briefed about the program, she opposed it.
All told, no more than 14 members of Congress have been briefed about the program since it took effect in 2001, the Congressional officials said.
In a March brief about the informant program, Sanders alleged that sheriff's deputies lied "with shocking frequency" about how the program works and how evidence was obtained.
But a four-page memorandum from the national intelligence director's office, obtained by The Associated Press, shows that the White House briefing was about the surveillance program.
The leaders said the staff learned about the program in the October 2003 briefing and later sought Defense Department documents about it.
April 2006, according to the account published in the NYT, also marked the first time the C.I.A. director briefed Bush about the torture program that had been going on for the past few years.
In May , 2002 the N.S.A. briefed Judge Colleen Kollar-Kothely, the incoming chief of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, about the program.
Each was briefed orally and it was understood that they were not to speak about the program with anyone, including their colleagues on the committees.
As a result of the briefing, he said, the commission staff filed document requests with the Pentagon for information about the program.
