The briefings will contain top secret information, but the candidates are given no information about covert action programs or the identities of intelligence sources.
100 nations now have cyber command, and the Pentagon's own briefings, which contained the word 'cyber' 12 times during 2012, have already mentioned it 147 times so far this year.
While the briefings do contain classified information, they are more of an overview than an in-depth briefing, and do not contain details like who collected intelligence, nor does it contain information about covert operations.
Which reminds me that one of the fattest files on your desk must contain briefings about research.
I've looked back at this a good bit at different times, wondering, you know, well, could we have done something differently?" General Jack Keane, then the Army's Vice Chief of Staff and one of Rumsfeld's most trusted advisers in the force, flew to Iraq and was chagrined that the 3rd I.D.'s briefings failed to focus on containing the spreading disorder.
It is common for "brown envelopes" containing cash to be handed out during press briefings - a practice that has been going on for so long that many young journalists with whom I have spoken have no idea that it is unethical.
Surveillance officers receive briefings before protests about key targets and are handed "spotter cards" containing the images of individuals police want to monitor.
Mr. Kean, who has been allowed to read large portions of the daily briefings that were provided to both President Bush and President Clinton, has said before that he did not believe any of the briefings before Sept. 11 contained information that would now suggest government malfeasance before the attacks.
All three departments, however, have refused to release further details of the briefings, on grounds that they contain "arguments considering difficult and potentially controversial areas".
At his morning briefing he attacked the media saying that all the questions he was being asked revealed the media's view that the briefings they were given daily contained only spin.
