Leibovich published snippets from the over-top-memo, titled "The Magic of Valerie," but doesn't dig deeply into why a Times profile of Jarrett -– rather than one in, say, Politico -– would cause such concern in the West Wing and lead to a ridiculous attempt at damage control.
This currently anti-democratic system can likely be traced to a couple of weeks after the September 11 , 2001attacks, when a top secret memo was written by Office of Legal Counsel OLCC) Attorney John Yoo, (who would also write the "torture memo" a year later).
Michael Heseltine, then defence secretary, revealed the existence of the weapon in a "top secret" memo to Margaret Thatcher sent in January 1983.
While the letter does not include many specific details, it refers to a companion Top Secret memo, also dated Feb. 24, entitled "Detainee Account of Violations".
A "top secret" memo sent to MI6 and the Foreign Office detailed how Clarke had told Spanish police he was a novelist who "wanted to study the reactions of men to women in the streets".
The top secret memo from the chairman, General Maxwell D. Taylor, dated Nov. 2, 1962, underscored the continuing danger of a nuclear conflict between the superpowers even after the Soviet Union agreed to remove nuclear missiles from the island.
In a top secret memo, the director of cyber operations at GCHQ told colleagues the agency needed to turn cyber into "another capability alongside air, sea and land forces".
The attitude of senior Whitehall officials is reflected in this top secret memo to Thatcher from her cabinet secretary, Sir Robert Armstrong, on 19 May, two days before the British landings on the Falklands.
As far back as 17 August 1944, Churchill had written a "Personal and Top Secret" memo to US president Franklin Roosevelt to say that: "The War Cabinet and Foreign Secretary are much concerned about what will happen in Athens, and indeed Greece, when the Germans crack or when their divisions try to evacuate the country.
British intelligence agency GCHQ is facing fresh calls to reveal the extent of its involvement in the US targeted killing programme after details of a fatal drone strike in Yemen were included in a top secret memo circulated to agency staff.
Huston warned in a top-secret memo that the plan was "clearly illegal".
