The guidelines require investigators to provide notice unless it would "pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation".
The ethics agency also advises that employees may be directed to divest financial investments if they pose a substantial conflict.
Beyond violating our laws, visa overstays pose — and they really are a big problem — pose a substantial threat to national security.
No studies have been conducted on how Cipro affects pregnancy, but the centers said it was unlikely to pose a substantial risk.
"We must notify the media organization in advance unless doing so would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation," Mr. Machen's spokesman, William Miller, said.
Our sense is that at this stage these developments do not pose a substantial risk to the US economic outlook," she said.
Normally too, it would have had to notify the media in advance unless, as in this case, "doing so would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation".
"As currently conducted in many states, judicial election campaigns pose a substantial threat to judicial independence and impartiality and undermine public trust in the judicial system," the justices said yesterday.
The Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney's office, in a statement, cited an exception: it was allowed to not to tell if giving such a warning "would pose a substantial threat to the integrity of the investigation".
The inspector general said that payments to consultants, advisers and researchers "pose a substantial risk of fraud and abuse" if the payments exceed "fair market value for the services rendered".
"We have studied this thing inside out and continue to do so, and we are not finding contaminants that pose a substantial risk, or pathways of exposure," said Mark Lowery, a department spokesman.
