Word: detector
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Cambridge firefighters, who arrived several minutes later responding to the room's smoke detector, chopped about two inches from the front of the still-smoking mantle where the menorah had been placed, Lau said...
...intensive FBI investigation involving the President's top aides that is still under way. The day after the information became public, William Clark, the National Security Adviser who has since been replaced by McFarlane, handed Reagan the draft of a letter authorizing the FBI to use lie-detector tests to find the source. The President willingly signed it. About an hour later, however, several top White House staffers got wind of the letter and asked to see Reagan. Among the angriest were White House Chief of Staff James Baker and Deputy Chief of Staff Michael Deaver. They tried...
Reagan has long been dismayed over leaks. At week's end reports surfaced that the White House had authorized perhaps as many as four FBI investigations of its staff since 1981. Last March, Reagan signed a controversial directive permitting the use of lie detectors on the 2.5 million federal employees who hold high security clearances. Despite these actions, the leaks have continued and no sources have been uncovered. In fact, the prospect of facing a polygraph has done little except provoke discontent within the Administration. Said one outraged official: 'If Reagan cannot trust his own people without giving...
...accurately inform the country. It is up to the administration, through careful cooperation with the press to keep national security interests intact. Otherwise, the best we can hope for is that the next time the President appears on national television, he too will be wearing a lie detector...
...four of the ten ground-level entrances of the building, and banned sightseers from the immediate vicinity of the congressional chambers. Soon staffers will need photo identification passes, and tourists will be obliged to remove their overcoats for a spot check and marched through a sophisticated metal detector. Outside, parking-lot traffic may be rerouted to thwart car bombers, like the one who destroyed the U.S. Marine headquarters in Beirut...