Sentence examples for secret requests from inspiring English sources

Google and Facebook have called for the US authorities to allow them to fully disclose the number of secret requests they receive to hand over users' data.

Microsoft and Twitter have joined calls by Google and Facebook to be able to publish more detail about how many secret requests they receive to hand over user data under the controversial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (Fisa).

The papers, unsealed after a request by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the California First Amendment Coalition and Wired magazine, show that prosecutors in the case made three secret requests for more time to file paperwork on the seizure of the site.

Twitter is currently suing the Department of Justice in an effort to speak more publicly about secret requests for user data.

Most companies disclosed the secret requests in bands of 500 with a six-month reporting delay to avoid any inadvertent interference with active investigations.

But even though the companies can now admit they received these secret requests, Cloudflare and CREDO are still arguing in the 9th Circuit that the years-long gag orders preventing them from discussing the NSLs violate their right to free speech.

Perhaps even at the secret request of the "sly and scheming" Lifar.

In its opinion, the court rejected a secret request made by the Justice Department this year to allow broader cooperation and evidence-sharing between counterintelligence investigators and criminal prosecutors.

Last year, President Bush deflected a secret request by Israel for specialized bombs it wanted for an attack on Iran's main nuclear complex, The New York Times reported on Sunday.

US officials have said they are considering ways to help the Iraqi government even as it emerged that the Obama administration had rebuffed a secret request from the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, to bomb Isis positions.

A similar secret request, for four hundred million dollars or more to modify the Jimmy Carter, a Seawolf-class nuclear submarine, for top-secret agency intelligence work, was approved — evidence that the White House believes that more covert operations will solve the nation's coming intelligence problems.