Sentence examples for for total secrecy from inspiring English sources

He said one strategy intelligence communities will need to adopt to counter these efforts is to give up the desire for total secrecy and be more open to educating the media and the public about the nature of existing threats.

But in a sworn statement submitted in several court cases, Dale L. Watson, the executive assistant director for counterterrorism and counterintelligence at the F.B.I., outlined the reasoning behind the government demand for total secrecy.

The US justice department released a public version of the three-year-old document, formally dubbed the Presidential Policy Guidance, after the ACLU persuaded a federal judge in February to decide against the Obama administration's argument for total secrecy.

Sometimes the need to test outweighs the need for total secrecy.

Well, in the extremely unlikely and idiotic case that that was the reason for total secrecy, then hey, that barn has sure burned down now, hasn't it?

The country has, until recently, been one of the world's top tax havens with a long tradition of total secrecy for its banks' customers.

For reasons unknown, and under conditions of total secrecy, Voynich managed to procure some of the books before they entered the Vatican Library.

The company gained widespread attention in the late 1990s for working in total secrecy (complete with blacked-out windows at its Santa Clara, Calif., offices).

"Republicans have decided that the appropriate way to fight for openness is in total secrecy," Mr. Frank said at one of the committee's sporadic breaks.

The corners of the Internet frequented by fans of "X-Files" and alien-creature sightings were abuzz last week when President Bush extended for another year the total secrecy of Area 51, a large Air Force base in the Nevada desert.

Some SEAL and SEAL-support units operate in total secrecy; for example, the SEAL team that killed bin Laden, variously known as SEAL Team 6 or the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (DEVGRU), is not officially acknowledged by the U.S. Navy to exist.