Sentence examples for defense secrets from inspiring English sources

To divulge the defense secrets of one's country for personal political gain.

A high official must be held responsible for this breakdown in protection of our national defense secrets.

Earlier, in 1964, he defended John W. Butenko, a 39-year-old American electronics engineer accused of giving defense secrets to the Soviet Union.

But that was before gasoline passed $2 a gallon and our national defense secrets turned up hidden behind an office copying machine.

Later that month, an engineer who worked on the B-2 stealth bomber for Northrop Grumman was sentenced to 32 years in prison for passing defense secrets to China.

In the federal indictment on Friday, Mr. Faget was charged with communicating national defense secrets, converting classified information to his own use and three counts of making false statements.

Until now, only the Defense Ministry had the authority to classify information as a "defense secret".

The better analogies to the dispute before the court, he said, were two cases concerning what he called "alleged contracts to spy," where the very subject matter of a claim or defense is secret.

The White House has largely kept the details of this cyber-defense project secret, but estimates of the cost of the program have ranged as high as $30 billion.

Mr. Awlaki's father tried to sue the government, which used the "national secrets" defense to have the case tossed out.

In the first of two days of potentially pivotal hearings in the case of the scientist accused of mishandling important nuclear weapons secrets, defense lawyers offered evidence today suggesting that he had been singled out for prosecution largely because he is Chinese-American.