"To hold the suspect as an enemy combatant under these circumstances would be contrary to our laws and may even jeopardize our efforts to prosecute him for his crimes".
It spoke up "as soon as we were confident that notification would not jeopardize our efforts to secure systems and limit damage from the intrusion, potentially making the situation much more difficult to resolve".
"Congressional restrictions designed to 'punish' inadequate allied performance or to force allies to compensate for a diminished U.S. effort can jeopardize our endeavors to increase allied defense contributions," Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger wrote in an introduction to the study.
But if you're trying to lose weight, a growing body of research suggests eating too many meals out with friends and family might jeopardize your efforts.
He was anxious not to jeopardize the effort, which could imminently bear fruit.
Syrian government actions not only violate the cease-fire engineered under United Nations auspices, he said, but also jeopardize any effort at peace.
Florida, too, has done things to jeopardize the effort, said former Senator Graham, a Democrat who started the movement to save the Everglades in the 1980s.
The governor and the Legislature received a report on March 15 from a state oversight board warning that cuts to inmate rehabilitation programs would jeopardize the effort to reduce recidivism.
Then there was a surge in violence against coalition service members by Afghan soldiers and police officers, known as insider attacks, that by late summer had jeopardized the effort to train Afghan forces to be able to fight on their own.
A failure to modernize New York City's waste water treatment plants in areas near reservoirs is jeopardizing an effort to avoid having to build a $6 billion filtration plant, officials say.
