Sentence examples for secret authority from inspiring English sources

The use of private citizens, usually left-wing activists or lawyers who are given secret authority by the prime minister, makes it possible for the government to maintain loose contacts without drawing too much attention to itself.

Many have never heard of these programs; the sort of people who trust states with secret authority tend not to know what such things have led to in the recent past.

WASHINGTON — The United States military since 2004 has used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, according to senior American officials.

WHEN the brouhaha over the Department of Justice reading the e-mails of James Rosen, a Fox News reporter, broke last month, I wrote that it seemed quaint to be outraged about the department getting a warrant from a judge for a specific target (and eventually disclosing the warrant) when other agencies can obtain secret authority for much wider surveillance.

Today the New York Times revealed that since 2004, the U.S. military "used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan, and elsewhere".

and overseas: Today the New York Times revealed that since 2004, the U.S. military "used broad, secret authority to carry out nearly a dozen previously undisclosed attacks against Al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan, and elsewhere".

After looking at the M.T.A., Mr. Hevesi needs to examine the other secret authorities as well.

After American intelligence agencies failed to detect and stop Al Qaeda's 9/11 attack, sixteen years ago, Congress more than doubled their budgets and gave them unprecedented secret authorities.

The rationale behind the creation of the secret civilian authority drew on the fact that the German and Soviet occupation of Poland was illegal.

Maintaining that there was no way Americans could be kept safe via purely legal methods, they asked for and were given secret legal authority to make torture the go-to option in their Global War on Terror.

The secret information, authorities say, allowed SAC to earn profits and avoid losses totaling $276 million, which prosecutors call the most lucrative insider trading ever uncovered.