Sentence examples for senior defense from inspiring English sources

That's the dilemma," said one senior defense official.

"It was very tense," said a senior defense official.

"There's always tension there," a former senior defense official said.

"It was mostly ignored," said one senior defense official.

"There's no smoking gun," the senior defense official said.

A senior defense official said "this was a thoroughly coordinated report," but did not elaborate.

But senior Defense Department officials said no decisions had been made.

A Senior Defense Department official counters: We are looking at the detainees individually.

"This really is skipping a generation and leaping ahead," a senior Defense Department official said tonight.

We can't spike the ball in the end zone," a senior Defense Department official told me.

"The message to Iran is, 'Don't even think about it,' " one senior Defense Department official said.