The US hope is that headway on security could spill over to the other negotiating topics, and also encourage Israel to present its positions on the borders of a Palestinian state, something it has thus far refrained from doing.
Diplomatic security agents spill out of three vans.
Horrific tales of relatives massacred or driven into exile by Mr. Hussein's security forces spilled from one speaker after another when Mr. Wolfowitz took questions after his speech.
SRINAGAR, Kashmir — Bloodied and battered, the wounded arrive daily at the emergency room here, the casualties of weeks of protests against gun-toting Indian police and security forces that spill even into the hospital corridors.
Now the rivalry between Kadyrov and the security services had spilled into the open.
The defendants come earlier, to snake their way through a security line that spills onto the sidewalk outside and often takes over an hour to navigate.
As I'm heading to Amsterdam to cover The Next Web conference on Thursday/Friday, this blog will be a little quiet for the few hours of catching taxis, going through security, removing shoes, spilling coffee on the plane, searching for Tram signs and checking into hotels.
A Prison Is Opened to the Light As British forces took control in Basra, a prison that had been a part of Saddam Hussein's state security apparatus began to spill the secrets of its small, cramped cells.
In addition to those cases, the S.E.C. got in on the settlement with BP last week over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, settling securities fraud charges that the company made misleading statements about the amount of oil flowing from its well.
As Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald describes it, "A red emergency light spins in court when a censor at the judge's elbow hits the mute button to prevent someone from spilling national security secrets".
