Those interior rules are simple: anything goes, as long as I feel I'm adding something to the conversation, preferably either unique or supportive of something I deem valuable.
But for the first three months of Clinton's candidacy, journalists visiting the headquarters weren't permitted to report details or tweet photos of the interior, rules that have only helped fuel the perception that the campaign is too controlling of the press.
The interior department rules due to come into force on Wednesday would require companies to provide data on chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, and to take steps to prevent leakage from oil and gas wells on federally owned land.
But it was placed out of scientific bounds 2 years ago, when then Secretary of Interior Bruce Babbitt ruled that a 1990 law called the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NGPRA) required the skeleton to be given to five Native American tribes.
Authorities investigating the cause of a plane crash that killed Mexico's interior minister this week ruled out a bomb, officials said Friday.
But campaigners notched up a small victory earlier this year when the interior minister, Ziad Baroud, ruled that Lebanese citizens would have the option of removing their religious-group classification from their national identity cards.
Eventually, they carved out a state that, in the last century and a half, has been largely characterized by venality and a kind of unique antebellum oligarchy, in which the Americo-Liberians left the tribes of the interior — mostly animists, ruled by sorcery or juju, as it's called there — largely to themselves.
This month, the secretary of the interior is expected to rule on whether polar bears should be listed under the Endangered Species Act.
Claude Guéant, a close aide to Mr. Sarkozy and his former interior minister, would not rule out the possibility that the former president might weigh in publicly on the dispute.
To prove his point, Shin produces a copy of an 1877 map belonging to Japan's department of the interior that appears to rule out Japanese ownership, then another Japanese map that makes no mention of the islands.
