Sentence examples for secret framework from inspiring English sources

Imagine, pre-9/11, the uproar if we had learned that the first President Bush had directed the NSA to sweep up all America's communications without warrant, or if Bill Clinton had created a secret framework to kill American citizens without trial.

Schnitzler's secret is that his framework is artificial but his people are real.

This is one of the legal frameworks for secret programs of large-scale electronic and phone-record collection, such as the ones exposed by Edward Snowden.

Telegram said the framework for its "Secret Chat" feature has been adapted for this new introduction.

Joint military operations were conducted in January 2009 within the framework of a secret agreement between Kagame and Kabila.

That's alarming given that that the details of the framework are both secret and in dispute (the Iranians and Americans continue to spar over what was agreed to) and given that it's plainly unclear what the Iranians' intentions are.

Under this framework, statutes prohibiting torture, secret detention, and warrantless surveillance have been set aside.

Then came the axis-of-evil speech, and then, in October, Pyongyang's astounding admission that it had been violating the Agreed Framework by running a secret uranium-enrichment program, which triggered a cutoff of Framework-mandated fuel-oil supplies.

King said: "Hammond's clear confusion is the predictable outcome of a legal framework that depends upon secret interpretations and that obscures the reality of the powers it grants.

The government has made no secret of the fact that today's framework is designed to provide the backdrop to that review, setting out a vision of the higher education landscape.

Jack Goldsmith, former assistant attorney general in the George W Bush administration and now a professor at Harvard Law School, argues the past decade shows that the United States needs a new statutory framework governing how it conducts secret warfare.