She then took part in meetings at which counter-terrorism and security was firmly at the head of the agenda.
A US security source firmly ruled out that the "unrelated case" Comey referred to in his letter was the investigation into the hacking of the Democratic National Committee earlier this year.
"Know all Men by these Presents," begins the legal boilerplate of the St . Louisfree negro bond affidavits, "that we, Moses Dickson as principal, and John How as security, are firmly bound" for the "full sum of five hundred dollars".
Mr Paul's insistence on scrapping much broader provisions of the Patriot Act has pushed the Republican party's security establishment firmly back into the camp of the neo-conservatives who once dominated it.
Albania, Croatia, and Macedonia should be invited to join in sending a firm signal to extremists throughout the region that each country's security is firmly guaranteed by the alliance.
Two of the three architectural pieces of smart security are firmly established: cheap and robust communications networks, and software tools.
Once Social Security is firmly on the next president's agenda, Hishta noted, AARP will be less hesitant to express its opinion about individual reform proposals.
Obama has repeatedly offered to raise the age of Medicare eligibility, and has put Social Security cuts firmly on the table in his attempts to craft a deal with the GOP to raise the debt ceiling.
On Social Security, she firmly rejects proposals to cut benefits and instead proposes changes that would not only put the program on a firm financial footing for decades, but allow some benefits to be improved.
Eleanore Bez agrees, placing France's security woes firmly at the feet of the country's establishment centrist parties: "The complete failure of politicians, rising unemployment, immigration has caused terrorism to skyrocket – Islamist terrorism, which we are experiencing throughout France," she argues.
