Sentence examples for secret directive from inspiring English sources

Last autumn it issued a secret directive (known to insiders as "Document Number 11") with some guidelines.

As the ranking member of the House Constitution subcommittee, I have repeatedly called for a special prosecutor to be appointed to investigate the president's secret directive.

Around the time Khalilzad arrived, in 1985, President Reagan signed a secret directive authorizing an increase in aid to the Afghans, but the Administration was divided over whether that should include sophisticated heat-seeking anti-aircraft Stinger missiles.

He was unaware of a secret directive JCS 1067 (the Morgenthau Plan), which called for reducing Germany to a "pastoral state to keep it from making war a third time".

It was suffused with the same sense of a party under assault by Western liberal thinking that permeated a secret directive issued in 2013, known as Document Number Nine.

Yesterday's strong editorial called for Mr. Bush to "retract and renounce his secret directive and halt any illegal spying, or Congress should find a way to force him to do it.

The party controls the media through secret directives issued by the party's Propaganda Department, which is overseen by a member of the Politburo's Standing Committee.

But one of its main tasks remains that of issuing secret directives to the state-controlled media telling them what not to report.

Even the "Gang of Four" should have been allowed the same rights, including the right to petition and reveal open or secret directives from Mao to show the extent of their responsibilities.

In the case of the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and other post-9/11 legislation, the Bush administration did not need to resort to complex legal maneuvers or secret directives to get what it wanted; it was handed broad new authority by Congress.

Barack Obama is said to have signed in October a still-secret directive containing new guidelines for federal agencies carrying out cyber-operations.