He's charged with giving the author classified information -- about the CIA's Operation Merlin, a dangerous maneuver that provided flawed nuclear weapon blueprints to the Iranian government in 2000.
In its zeal to prosecute Sterling for allegedly leaking classified information about Operation Merlin -- which provided flawed nuclear weapon design information to Iran in 2000 -- the U.S. government has damaged its own standing with the IAEA.
However, this QI has been criticized as it might have provided flawed information due to inaccuracies in the underlying data base and the unavailability of national cancer registries [ 59].
The opponents fear that a Council-appointed task force would provide flawed research and a pretense to roll back smoking restrictions in the future.
It probably wouldn't be long before software vendors made providing flaw-free products a high priority, and corporate systems administrators were told to secure the company's network, whatever the cost.
Within a day, attorneys in another case involving highly sensitive information — that of the former C.I.A. officer Jeffrey Sterling, who had been convicted of leaking to the journalist James Risen the details of a secret mission to provide flawed nuclear blueprints to Iran via a Russian intermediary — were arguing in court that their client should receive a sentence on par with Petraeus's.
The contractors, which include Italy's Salini Impregilo, Belgium's Jan de Nul and Panama's Constructora Urbana, blame ballooning costs on the canal authority for providing flawed geological studies of the terrain.The canal, they say, failed to detect the presence of fault lines despite a seven-year study, which in turn affected the quality of the basalt earmarked for mixing the cement.
It's notable that Risen describes the Obama administration as more aggressive, considering his experience with the Bush administration, which successfully lobbied Times senior editors in 2003 not to publish Risen's story on a bungled CIA plan to provide flawed nuclear blueprints to Iran -- a story that later appeared in his 2006 book.
For factors crucial to study quality, a heavy penalty of -4 is applied when no information at all is provided: serious flaws in any of these can irredeemably invalidate the results, even when all other aspects of the study have been adequately performed and reported, and the quality assessment must reflect this.
While the electrode employing wild-type FADGDH provided dangerously flawed results in the presence of maltose, the sensor employing our engineered FADGDH showed a clear glucose concentration-dependent response that was not affected by the presence of maltose.
