Mr. Joseph, who in 2005 was one of the officials who gave briefings on the laptop evidence, said Monday he could not recall "any suggestion in the intelligence that Iran was doing anything other than moving full speed ahead".
Experts from different agencies gave briefings on migration, health and a campaign to curb the portrayal of smoking in films – global issues that can be at least mitigated by international cooperation.
Underlining how seriously those who are in favor of maintaining the phone record collection program took the amendment's threat to yank its funding, General Alexander himself — the good general heads the NSA — gave briefings on the Hill to House Democrats and Republicans, albeit in different sessions.
Before that, she gave briefings on Oct. 29, Oct. 3 and Sept. 10. .
"Frequently, the Vietcong or North Vietnamese would be attacking an outpost and I would explain that, and we would have ground-air support, particularly at night where we'd go in there with these gun ships, and I would give briefings on all of that," Filer told The Huffington Post.
He remembers all too well the days when "some analysts were given briefings that enabled them to get the jump on the rest of the Street.
The Senate Intelligence Committee has approved legislation to curb official briefings of reporters on security programs, and some agencies have stopped their routine of giving briefings to reporters.
A16 Senator Rejects Ridge Offer Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, rejected an offer by Tom Ridge, director of the Office of Homeland Security, to give briefings rather than formal testimony to Congress on how the administration was guarding against terror attacks.
Western diplomats who had been given private briefings on the report over the past week said the news was grim.
Later, after other technology leaders were given classified briefings on how terrorists operated, he and Andreessen realized that the Feds had a point.
