"Leakers and whistleblowers, together with the investigative journalists they inform, are a critically important pressure valve, however imperfect, that protect us from an overreaching national security establishment that uses the justifiable needs of operational secrecy to avoid scrutiny for its errors of judgment, incompetence, or malfeasance.
The findings suggest the need to explore mechanisms by which the health-care system can positively respond to these justifiable needs.
Gun owners' groups complain, however, that it is all but impossible to prove a justifiable need as the law is written.
New Jersey, known for its restrictive gun laws, takes another approach, forcing residents to show a judge that there is a justifiable need.
Even inside their own organisation, State requires its employees to "subscribe" to classified cables by topic, creating a record of what you see and limiting access by justifiable need.
But on Tuesday, he said he had been speaking only about legislation that would allow people with a "justifiable need" to carry a concealed weapon, as the law already permits.
Today, however, Mr. Schundler asserted that, in effect, he had been misunderstood for months: he said he had been speaking only about legislation that would allow people with a "justifiable need" to carry a concealed weapon to obtain such permits -- such as "a woman who is receiving death threats".
And, of course, because this is the United States, where a third of all the mass shootings in the world take place, it mattered, perhaps most of all, that he could easily obtain a weapon for which no civilian has any justifiable need, one designed to kill and maim the most people in the shortest period of time.
Other forms of refinancing which are journalistically justifiable need to be forged and tested.
Gun control advocates say American civilians have no justifiable need for assault weapons or high-capacity magazines.
Even retired cops have a hard time meeting the "justifiable need" standard the state requires for anyone looking to get a concealed carry license.
