The limitations of our intelligence agencies were famous and ancient long before Sept. 11: the C.I.A.'s foreign brief and reluctance to share information, the F.B.I.'s antiquated technology and an F.B.I. culture designed for making cases rather than nabbing terrorists, and so on.
Foreign affairs briefing..... "The Foreign and Commonwealth Office also has a briefing ready for you, with pressing issues including: Handling the renewed eurozone crisis and Greece.
So far, Mr. McCain has not established a formal foreign policy briefing process within his campaign.
Thatcher's Foreign Office briefing papers for the meeting say: "We have supported calls for Mandela's release.
A confidential Foreign Office briefing in 2007 mendaciously concluded that "it has proved extremely difficult to disentangle the truth" about the Armenian genocide.
Still, glimpses of the program emerged in interviews with current and former American and foreign officials, briefing files, budget documents and several State Department cables released by WikiLeaks.
A secret Foreign Office briefing dated 22 June 1984, which was sent to Downing Street, stressed that British "commercial interests" in India were "very substantial.
He is devising answers to critiques of his Texas record and things he has written about in his books, studying foreign policy briefing papers and holding mock debating sessions.
A secret Foreign Office briefing, of 22 June 1984, sent to Downing Street, stressed that British commercial interests in India were "very substantial, it is a large and growing market for both commercial and defence sales".
And so ended what Mr. Christie's closest aides and associates described as a heady roller-coaster ride during which he discussed the perils of a national campaign with former President George W. Bush during a Sept. 11 Jets-Cowboys game, received a private hourlong foreign policy briefing from former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, and dined with Nancy Reagan.
