Thus, the only question for the magistrate's consideration is whether the contemplated inspection deviates from an inspection schedule drawn up by higher level agency officials.
The F.D.A. now has 90 different Internet drug investigations under way, according to a high-level agency official.
Yet, in a dozen or so lengthy conversations I had with high-level agency and marketing executives, suspicion of Facebook abounded.
High-level agency officials were aware of the practice, Josh Taylor, a VA spokesman, said in an Jan . 11e-mail.
Still, forceful and brainy, Dr. Mitchell, who declined to comment for this article, became a persuasive player in high-level agency discussions about the best way to interrogate Qaeda prisoners.
The allegation touched on the personal dealings of Aleksandr I. Bastrykin, a close aide to President Vladimir V. Putin and the director of the Investigative Committee, a high-level agency in the Russian government that coordinates criminal inquiries.
Senate investigators' in-depth report on the matter cited delays in the S.E.C.'s investigation of Pequot's trades and the disclosure of delicate information by high-level agency officials to lawyers representing those under scrutiny in the investigation.
In "The Pale King," David Foster Wallace's posthumously published 2011 novel, set in an I.R.S. office, a high-level agency official laments: "We've changed the way we think of ourselves as citizens..
These scientists and lawyers said that high-level agency officials in Washington had made it clear in meetings that some of the resistance to more rigorous enforcement was also coming from members of the environmental and energy staff at the White House.
Mr Sissling said some health boards faced increased costs due to the high level of agency staff or locum doctors employed to cover staffing shortages.
