Sentence examples for briefings on the program from inspiring English sources

Lawyers for Sterling gave extensive briefings on the program to the State Department, the Pentagon and various United Nations agencies dealing with piracy.

The briefings on the program under which Americans and other people in the United States are selected for eavesdropping without court warrants were limited to the so-called Gang of Eight.

They are cast members who conduct surveillance and hold mock intelligence briefings on the program, alongside Adam Ciralsky, an NBC News producer, and David Crane, a former chief prosecutor of an international war crimes tribunal in Sierra Leone.

I have seen reports of 22 briefings on the 702 program, and nearly as many on the 215 programs.

Under the arrangement, one of the panel's subcommittees will seek detailed briefings on the National Security Agency program.

Mr. Cheney's office oversees the briefings on the surveillance program.

Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va)., the intelligence committee chairman, who had received some of the first detailed briefings on the surveillance program, called Vice President Cheney in late June to explore options.

Conceivably some views about the scope and propriety of the programs could change after closed briefings on the N.S.A. programs planned for House members on Tuesday and senators on Thursday.

She said she planned to ask for more briefings on those programs.

The step was a major modification of a White House stance that has limited briefings on the highly classified program to no more than a small group of Congressional leaders, even since the existence of the program was disclosed late last year.

The memorandum, dated May 17, 2006, details "the classification of the dates, locations, and names of members of Congress who attended briefings on the Terrorist Surveillance Program," wrote John D. Negroponte, then director of intelligence.