But since then the department confirmed that Mr. Holder had approved a request for a search warrant in 2010 for the private correspondence of James Rosen, a Fox News reporter who disclosed a North Korean nuclear test that had not been made public.
In Utah, the State Elections Office has approved a request by Utahns for Radioactive Waste Control that it accept signatures for a ballot initiative that would forbid transporting nuclear waste through the state.
In Crawford, Tex., where President Bush was on vacation, aides said he had approved a request from Gov. Rick Perry for a "pre-landfall emergency declaration," which allows federal assistance, and federal coordination with federal authorities, to flow into a state ahead of a storm.
"The Department of Defence has approved a request by army leadership to provide required medical treatment for an inmate diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
A federal judge has approved a government request for permission to force HSBC, one of the world's largest banks, to turn over the names of scores of Indian-American clients suspected of tax evasion through the bank's operations in India.
And even before Congress has approved a military budget for 2002, the Pentagon is busy writing its budget request for 2003, which President Bush will propose in January.
The Obama administration has approved a whopping 99.5percentt of the request for the new deferred action program that protects undocumented youth from deportation and grants them work permits, a conservative think tank calculates.
Since 1995 her office has approved all requests for employee details to four Democratic lawmakers;Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J ., Senator John Kerry (D-N.J .., Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y).
The department had earlier approved a request for five guards for the mission, which was still in effect at the time of the July 9 cable.
The city's Department of Transportation has approved her request for a traffic light at 205th Street and Goulden Avenue.
