(Tea Party activists and other fiscal hawks take note: the Commerce Department report provides official confirmation that spending cuts, particularly at the state and local level, are acting as a drag on the economy).
The findings provide the first official confirmation of use of sulfur mustard, commonly known as mustard gas, in Syria since it agreed to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile, which included sulfur mustard.
Feinstein also provided the first official confirmation of a German report that indicated Merkel's phone had been monitored for more than a decade.
But the investigator, Klaus Ulrich Kersten, director of Germany's federal anticrime agency, the Bundeskriminalamt, provided the first official confirmation that the three pilots had been in Afghanistan and the first dates of the training.
Must find leaker now!" Less than forty minutes into the hearing, James Comey, the director of the F.B.I., provided the latest official confirmation that the "Russian story" is not "FAKE NEWS".
During a trip to Beirut on Wednesday, Jordan's foreign minister, Marwan Muasher, provided the first official confirmation of the incident, again maneuvering carefully between opposite poles -- expressing respect for Hezbollah, but also insisting that "we will not allow any armed group to exist in the country".
Nearly two years into the congressional debate over the use and legality of Section 215, the report provides the first official confirmation that the "tangible things" obtained by the F.B.I. through Section 215 include not just phone metadata but "email transactional records" and two full lines of other uses, all of which the F.B.I. saw fit to redact.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) provided the first official confirmation on Thursday that a long-awaited report prepared by the Senate Intelligence Committee on the CIA's enhanced interrogation program will be released "early next week".
Authorities obtained a list of passengers provided by the airline, but were awaiting official confirmation of their identities, reported The Associated Press.
