Sentence examples for restricted briefings from inspiring English sources

Ms. Divoll, who now teaches government at the United States Naval Academy, said the interrogation issue revealed the perils of such restricted briefings.

On Wednesday morning, the vice chairman of the Senate committee, Senator John D. Rockefeller IV, wrote to Mr. Bush to ask that he reconsider the restricted briefings.

But because of the restricted briefings, Ms. Divoll learned about them only years later from news media accounts.

"These restricted briefings should be expanded," said Representative Rush D. Holt, a New Jersey Democrat who is a member of the House Intelligence Committee.

Angered at apparent leaks from Congressional officials, Mr. Bush issued an order last Friday restricting classified briefings about military and law enforcement operations related to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to maintain "the proper level of confidentiality for the success of our military, intelligence and law enforcement operations".

That has angered Democrats, who have said that such an inquiry would allow all 15 members of the committee access to information that has been restricted to the limited briefings.

Palace officials restrict their weekly briefings to a select group of journalists from the mainstream Japanese media who in turn tend to acquiesce to imperial requests on what not to write.

But according to the original indictment, Mr. Davis had been giving his clients information from the briefings during such restricted periods since about 1999.

In other actions, the administration has invaded lawyer-client privilege in some cases involving accused terrorists, stanched leaks on Capitol Hill by cutting off national security briefings and sharply restricted access to presidential papers -- all without provoking any significant public protest.

Under the new law, all members of the committees must be told of such activities, though detailed briefings may still be restricted to the Gang of Eight.

The White House press secretary traditionally holds daily, on-camera briefings, but under Spicer, the White House has briefed reporters in increasingly more restricted settings, such as off-camera "gaggles" in which reporters cannot broadcast video or audio of the press secretary's answers.