Sentence examples for declassify data from inspiring English sources

A20 Anti-Terror Data to Be Released Attorney General John Ashcroft, under pressure over the Justice Department's anti-terrorism initiatives, agreed to declassify data showing how often federal agents have demanded records from libraries and other institutions.

Under pressure from lawmakers and civil rights groups over the Justice Department's antiterrorism initiatives, Attorney General John Ashcroft reversed course today and agreed to declassify data showing how often federal agents had demanded records from libraries and other institutions.

In general, officials who make the initial decision to classify information also have the power to declassify it, but the work of declassifying data is often delegated to lower-level officials.

Although the Justice Department last week released batches of newly declassified data about the use of the law, officials indicated that the most sensitive information would have to be delivered to members of Congress through classified meetings.

The declassified data offers a bigger payoff.

Until recently, seafloor gravity maps relied on declassified data from the Geosat missions (launched in 1985 and 1998, respectively) and on ERS-1 data.

Also note the gentle irony between the government's bristling take on Edward Snowden — the primum movens of the recently declassified data — and the fact that the government actually released this stuff.

So glaciologist Francesca Pellicciotti of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology's Institute of Environmental Engineering in Zurich, Switzerland; Tobias Bolch, a remote-sensing expert at the University of Zurich; and colleagues turned to declassified data from a U.S. spy satellite called Hexagon, which was used in the 1970s and 1980s at the height of the Cold War.

But the disclosure by Attorney General John Ashcroft, who said he grudgingly agreed to declassify the data on demands for library records to counter "misinformation," is unlikely to end the debate soon.

Declassified data from US military satellites (designed to monitor nuclear weapons tests) show that many such rocks burn up with no ill effects on the ground.

Other declassified information, not from Mr Gejdenson, vividly shows the Bush administration standing firm.