While initial proposals were vague, executives from companies that attended the meeting said they gathered that the department was interested in records that would allow them to identify which individuals visited certain Web sites and possibly conducted searches using certain terms.
In a letter to colleagues last week, Mr. Lieberman said the president risked dragging the measure "into unnecessary controversy by tacking on significant but vague new executive powers that are uncalled for and, in some cases, unprecedented".
This may not be true of FTSE 100 companies or the Premier League, where there is a large international market in vaguely plausible executive talent.
"The laws are so vague," said Don Allen, executive director of the Western Environmental Trade Association, a coalition of industry groups.
Mr. Vague, now chief executive of Juniper Financial, an Internet bank based in Wilmington, Del., left First USA with an important lesson: be a specialist.
So observers are left to look at other signals -- vague statements from executives, critical notices and awards -- to determine whether or not a show is a hit.
Because there were at least five different court orders issued at different times, following a vague and poorly-worded executive order, the confusion was understandable.
The executive was vague about the revenue potential generated from nonlinear platforms, insisting instead that as long as viewers were watching in some fashion, that was all that mattered.
In his first two weeks in office, President Donald Trump has governed like a cable news junkie who's surrounded himself with ideologues, issuing sometimes vague and sloppily worded executive orders, beefing with the media, and pushing forward policies that stirred up dissent and unease within the federal government.
The administration could return the OPT to the 12 months written in law, instead of expanding it further as the executive order vaguely proposes.
