As any medical student will tell you, multiple sclerosis (also called disseminated sclerosis) is notorious for being "disseminated in time and space".
"That," the official continued, "is why the statute requires that there be minimization procedures to ensure that when communications of, or concerning, US persons are acquired in the course of lawful collection under Section 702, that information is minimized and is retained and disseminated only when appropriate.
It also states that "such communications or information" - those from US citizens - "may be retained and disseminated" if it meets the guidelines set forth in the NSA's procedures.
Sri Lankan cartoonist Prageeth Eknelygoda, whose critical drawings of the Rajapaksa government were widely disseminated, went missing in 2010.
But I feel differently since his most recent performance, in a video interview disseminated yesterday by Channel 4 news host Krishnan Guru-Murthy.
He said that American data considered relevant to JIEDDO's expanding mission can be retained and disseminated beyond the 90-day limit, once examined by the organization's lawyers and approved by a senior official.
NSA procedures do not ban such interception, but rather set forth procedures to be followed in the event that the NSA analyst believes they should be "disseminated".
In the end, what matters is, 'Does all that add up to a reasonable belief that your target is outside the United States?'" So vast is this discretion that NSA analysts even have the authority to surveil communications between their targets and their lawyers, and that information can be not just stored but also disseminated.
News of its availability may have been disseminated by mainstream media but this album's release strategy was styled as a courageous leap into the unknown by a superstar who breaks boundaries while other musicians joylessly reinforce them.
A different briefing, this one about Bosnian Islamist extremist networks, disseminated information on at least eight US citizens and a permanent resident.
It is home to the religion's two holiest sites, Mecca and Medina; and its oil wealth has disseminated its distinctively intolerant strand of Islam that critics call Wahhabism.Thus far Saudi Arabia has proved naysayers wrong.
