Sentence examples for secret administration from inspiring English sources

In fact, the publication of the inside account of the administration's intentionally ignoring caution may even lend strength to the views of Colin Powell: the secret administration is not so secret anymore.

"As attorney general, he'll be setting the tone for whether this is going to be a secret administration or an open administration," said Lucy Dalglish, executive committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

And the CIA's Project MKULTRA, involving universities, hospitals and pharma companies, did indeed attempt to manipulate mental states through the secret administration of drugs, hypnosis and isolation to unknowing patients.

Yes, waterboarding is no longer with us, but in its place we have a far-flung drone campaign — overseen and defended by Brennan — that deals death, even to American citizens, on the say-so of the president and a secret administration "nominations" process.

Jake Tapper of Salon magazine tried to spy on another example of secret Bush administration governance during Washington's August dog days by lurking around the Loew's L'Enfant Plaza Hotel to see what he could learn about the closed-door meetings of the president's rubber-stamp commission to "strengthen" Social Security.

PAGE A8 RELEASED MEMOS MAY PREFACE MORE President Obama's decision to reveal details about interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency could lead to new disclosures about secret Bush administration operations against al Qaeda, current and former government officials said.

The American Civil Liberties Union used the law to obtain secret Bush administration legal memos authorizing the use of torture.

But for the second weekend in a row, it was a secret: Bloomberg administration officials refused to say yesterday who was in charge.

The contract to fix Iraq's oil industry was granted to KBR by a secret Bush administration task force formed in September 2002 to plan for Iraq's oil industry in the event of war.

The use of drone strikes has grown enormously over the past decade with relatively scant public policy discussion, but it has recently received greater attention, including a push by Congress to obtain access to secret Obama administration legal memos on targeted killings.

A secret Obama administration memo leaked soon after the strike concluded that Awlaki could be legally targeted if it was not possible to capture him alive.