The malware casts a spotlight on several security weaknesses.
Now that the last of those killed have been removed from the Cole, the new details have thrown a spotlight on the security precautions aboard the destroyer.
The World Trade Centre, of course, was not destroyed during an election campaign, let alone in a political environment like today's, in which Republicans are determined to keep the spotlight on national security, an issue where the party fares well and on which, they contend, the President, Barack Obama, and the Democrats have been dangerously weak.
But he is clearly trying to use his presidential platform to frame the debate in a way that would favor his party — by putting the spotlight on national security and the threat of terrorism, a theme that worked well for him in his own re-election campaign in 2004.
Hillary Clinton's campaign will work to regain its footing by putting the spotlight on national security after a rough week of headlines about the FBI investigation into her email and big-dollar fundraisers in the playgrounds of the country's elite.
The growing frequency – and potency – of attacks by al-Shabaab on Kenyan soil have thrown an increasingly harsh spotlight on Kenya's security forces, accused in a police watchdog report last year of apparent incompetence and cowardice.
The episode put a spotlight on the department's security strategies just before the annual New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square.
The case hinges around Michael Short, a 27-year-old serving a robbery sentence at the East Detention Centre, a provincial jail in Toronto, and once again puts a spotlight on rampant violence, overcrowding, and dysfunctional security measures that plague prisons across Canada.
The shooting at Nisour Square frayed relations between the Iraqi government and the Bush administration and put a spotlight on the United States' growing reliance on private security contractors in war zones.
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