Sentence examples similar to spy friendly from inspiring English sources

DRAGNET surveillance with minimal court oversight and retroactive immunity for spy-friendly telecoms sailed through the Senate yesterday, by a wide margin.

If you got angry last month when the National Security Agency, the White House and Eric Cantor's spy-friendly House of Representatives took a once-promising surveillance reform bill and turned it into a shit sandwich, I've got some good news for you: so, apparently, did many members of Congress.

Still, the C.I.A. director has four important jobs: manage the White House relationship; manage Congress, particularly to obtain budgetary favor; manage the agency's workforce and daily operations; and manage liaisons with other spy chiefs, friendly and unfriendly.

The usual prison sentence for spying for friendly countries is four to five years.

Multiple anonymous White House officials said the president had ended spying on friendly leaders.

In the Second World War, US soldiers distinguished Japanese spies from friendly Filipinos by their enunciation of "lollapalooza": "rorraparooza" was the wrong answer.

emptywheel (@emptywheel) One Day after Rolling Out "Comprehensive Review," Feinstein Proceeds with Mark-Up Anyway http://t.co/7Imh3vJjI1 October 29, 2013 12.44pm GMT Reuters has also spoken to a "senior Obama administration official" who has suggested Obama may ban spying on friendly leaders.

Dan Roberts (@RobertsDan) White House does not deny Senator Feinstein's assertion that it has already banned spying on friendly foreign leaders (counter to briefing) October 29, 2013 Updated at 6.15pm GMT 6.03pm GMT Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, begins the daily briefing.

Mr. Woolsey, who has firsthand knowledge of the case and strongly opposed clemency for Mr. Pollard during his tenure at the C.I.A., told Israel's Army Radio last week that three other spies for friendly countries who were tried and convicted in the United States were each sentenced to less than five years in prison.

Among the most important of them, he urged Congress to set up a panel of privacy advocates for the top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance (FISA) Court that handles intelligence cases, and announced that spying against friendly foreign leaders – as most controversially the case with German Chancellor Angela Merkel – would stop.

A public advocate in the Fisa court, a loosening of "gag orders" for national security letters, removing metadata control from the NSA, stricter standards for accessing metadata, and narrower authorizations for spying on friendly foreign leaders (but not, of course, their populations) can all have some marginal benefits.