A cautious process maintaining maximum combat capability is being advocated by the outgoing secretary of defense, Robert Gates, as a "no-brainer".
Statistical agencies have had much more experience in knowing where to draw the line, the official notes, citing as an example the cautious process the Census Bureau followed more than 2 decades ago in creating a network of secure data centers, where outsiders can access sensitive data under tight supervision.
I felt encouraged reading that, because it exalts a cautious learning process.
The agency's swift action is a striking departure from what has traditionally been viewed as a lumbering, cautious investigative process that some say leans overboard toward the medical establishment.
But the pressure from nervous financial markets and the fears of a sudden jolt, whether from Greek voters rejecting budget cuts or panicked Spanish depositors withdrawing their life savings, make the likelihood of a cautious, deliberative process lower.
The Wall Street Journal reported a "highly cautious, bureaucratic process that had the effect of watering down the U.S.'s own intelligence". Both the intelligence analyses prepared for officials and the talking points used by Rice were reportedly composed by committee, with as many as two dozen intelligence officials proposing changes to initial drafts.
This calls for a more cautious consent process.
Historically, the deployment of American forces overseas began with a request from a global combatant commander that was processed through the military's Joint Staff and placed before the defense secretary for approval, in a cautious and deliberate process.
Mr. Byrd, for one, spoke regretfully about "partisan barriers," and the committee's co-chairwoman, Republican Senator Lisa Carlton, spoke soothingly about embarking on a cautious, methodical "bipartisan process".
"I think they've been cautious about the process and how they should proceed, but certainly from the time we submitted our first report, they have taken it seriously".
Touching on prickly issues with the pragmatic detachment of a foreigner, Mr. Treglown shows that subversive elements were at play in art, literature and cinema, and that a cautious yet irreversible process of modernity had begun long before Franco's death.
