Sentence examples for justification for the program from inspiring English sources

In what seems the height of absurdity, the "threat of infestation of the New York City metropolitan area" was cited as a justification for the program.

General Alexander said he welcomed debate over the legal justification for the program because "what we're doing to protect American citizens here is the right thing".

The justification for the program has always been that school districts need compensation because the children of federal workers and people who work on military bases attend public schools that are supported by property taxes, but the federal government does not pay local taxes.

"The government has refused to provide a detailed legal justification for the program through the courts and to the public, even as government officials make off-the-record and unverifiable statements to the press claiming specific strikes are legal or that civilian casualties have not occurred," she said.

As independent journalist Marcy Wheeler notes, the demand for a search on Yahoo users' email coincides with an executive order issued by President Obama that categorized cyber attacks by individuals outside the U.S. a national emergency, and the executive order may have been used as justification for the program.

Nearly every US official who has come forward to defend PRISM has cited Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) as justification for the program.

The fact that administration officials have offered justifications for the program in narrow speeches and interviews only adds to that sense of inevitability.

Mr. Launius said spinoffs should not be viewed as a primary justification for the space program.

Petitioners also emphasize the severe and intractable nature of the drug problem as justification for the checkpoint program.

At one testy 2004 White House meeting, when Mr. Comey stated that "no lawyer" would endorse Mr. Yoo's justification for the N.S.A. program, Mr. Addington demurred, saying he was a lawyer and found it convincing.

Colonel McMaster added in the article that the Army "is finding it difficult to cut completely loose from years of wrongheaded thinking," noting that assumptions that high-technology systems will provide the American military with "dominant knowledge" of the battlefield has formed much of the justification for the Army program to build the Future Combat System.