Sentences with phrase «of agency officials»

The Obama Administration hastily approved the taxpayer subsidies for Solyndra despite obvious danger signs and warnings from accountants about the company's likely collapse, the misgivings of agency officials, and the company's mismanagement and lousy - quality products.

«The NRC gives every indication it is tilted toward the uranium and nuclear industry,» Capitan said, handing Rep. Udall a picture from the NRC's website of agency officials smiling and shaking hands with a uranium company that is proposing a new ISL mine in Wyoming.

Not exact matches

Twenty - one foreign trading agencies have so far registered at the DCE, according to the China Securities Journal, the official publication of China's top securities regulator, although the DCE has declined to name the agencies.

«I've had the opportunity to consult with the senior officials of the security and police agencies of the government of Canada, and on the basis of all available information at the present time there would appear to be no national security connection to this particular incident,» Goodale said.

THE OFFICIAL REACTION: «We have seen the ratings agencies go from the bubble of euphoria to the panic of risk.

THE OFFICIAL REACTION: «This is a disappointing development and it is completely at odds with the recent views of other rating agencies,» Ireland's finance ministry retorted.

The North's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Bach told Kim the trip was to «express the most heartfelt thanks» to North Korea's leader for helping make February's the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics a Games that were «symbolic of peace.»

The Houthis and allied militias loyal to former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who have fired dozens of missiles into Saudi territory during a 2-1/2 year war, said on their official news agency they had launched a mid-range ballistic missile that «hit its military target with high precision».

Since 1995, American vehicle owners have gone to the trouble of filing at least 859 official accounts with the safety agency, with 71 percent of those incidents occurring since 2011.

To come up with these new rules, NYDFS officials went to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and borrowed the cybersecurity policies and practices that the U.S. Government requires all federal agencies to adhere to.

A former top TSA official explains why staffing errors and a host of problems at the agency are to blame for long security wait times.

In recent weeks, Mueller's team has interviewed a number of senior officials, including Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats, National Security Agency Director Michael Rogers, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions, as well as Comey, officials said.

The news comes from a report issued Thursday by the Secure Our Smartphones («S.O.S.») Initiative, an international partnership of law - enforcement agencies, elected officials, and consumer advocates headed by New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, San Francisco District Attorney George Gascón, and London Mayor Boris Johnson.

The EPA has assessed 740 properties so far, while the Federal Emergency Management Agency has given out $ 6 million worth of rental and other assistance to displaced Californians, officials said.

«But the U.S. brought the threat of war to the Korean peninsula with large - scale new sanctions on the DPRK ahead of the Olympics closing ceremony,» the state news agency said, using the initials of the North's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

The President is nominating top Treasury Department official Timothy Massad as head of CFTC, the agency that regulates the futures and options market.

According to the Defense Intelligence Agency's official website, Jay ran a committee that conducted «hundreds of investigations, arrests and trials involving influential businessmen and political figures loyal to the British Crown.»

By Wednesday afternoon, the officials, like Trump, were saying he had in fact been considering ousting the FBI director for months because of a lack of confidence in his ability to lead the agency.

The report, built around detailed chronologies of dozens of CIA detainees, documents a long - standing pattern of unsubstantiated claims as agency officials sought permission to use — and later tried to defend — excruciating interrogation methods that yielded little, if any, significant intelligence, according to U.S. officials who have reviewed the document.

The United States government is creating a new agency to monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of diffuse risks, a senior Obama administration official said on Tuesday.

Xi told Trump China would «unswervingly follow the path of peaceful development» and promote «coordination and cooperation among world major powers», the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Wednesday.

Some of the illegal conduct was an «arrangement organized by the company,» the deputy director of the agency's Shanghai bureau, Gu Zhenghua, told the official Xinhua News Aagency's Shanghai bureau, Gu Zhenghua, told the official Xinhua News AgencyAgency.

The Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center (CTIIC) will be an «intelligence center that will «connect the dots» between various cyber threats to the nation so that relevant departments and agencies are aware of these threats in as close to real time as possible,» the official said on condition of anonymity.

Says Frank Gorman, an attorney with the FTC,» [The FTC] houses a database of scams that helps law enforcement officials determine how widespread a particular scam may be and whether or not the FTC or other agency will file suit.»

A senior North Korean diplomat left for Finland on Sunday for talks with former U.S. and South Korean officials, Yonhap News Agency reported, amid a series of diplomatic encounters ahead of a possible U.S. - North Korean summit.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency calls the missile a «new ground - to - ground medium long - range strategic ballistic rocket» and says it was «capable of carrying a large, heavy nuclear warhead.»

A spokeswoman for the EPA declined to comment, but a top official said in an internal memo that EPA leaders «will do everything in our power to protect our ability to support the mission of the agency in protecting human health and the environment.»

While the top level of the agency is staffed by officials chosen by the White House, the Justice Department is supposed to undertake legal obligations of the U.S. government in a non-political fashion.

The country's official Twitter account also put out a statement: «Some of our gov agencies, private firms were hit by a virus.

But some government officials, including some of Pruitt's own aides, pushed back against the spending requests and reportedly were sidelined as a result, pointing to an agency staff in disarray.

The questions about Russia only deepened late Tuesday when The New York Times reported that U.S. agencies had intercepted phone calls last year between Russian intelligence officials and members of Trump's 2016 campaign team.

The Swedish TT news agency said city officials planned to move thousands of flowers at a makeshift memorial in Stockholm to a nearby square after an aluminum fence outside the Ahlens department store threatened to collapse.

In a sign the row might spread further, the owner of a venue in Sweden where a senior official from Turkey's ruling party had been due to hold a rally on Sunday cancelled the rental contract, Turkey's private Dogan news agency reported.

The new rules update existing regulations and are designed to better codify what constitutes a violation of discipline, the official Xinhua news agency reported late on Wednesday.

The chief executive of MasterCard Inc., the former head of the National Security Agency and officials from Microsoft and Uber will join a commission to strengthen U.S. cyber defenses, the White House said on Wednesday.

Late on Tuesday night, China's official news agency tweeted a photo of the Tesla chief chatting with Vice Premier Wang Yang, one of the country's top officials in charge of the economy, in what a close watcher of China's automotive industry says may go down as a breakthrough meeting.

The New York Times reported that U.S. agencies had intercepted phone calls last year between Russian intelligence officials and members of Trump's 2016 campaign team.

Kim told a ruling party meeting in Pyongyang on Friday his regime would suspend tests of atomic bombs and intercontinental ballistic missiles after achieving its goal of building a nuclear arsenal, the official Korean Central News Agency reported.

Unnamed U.S. officials told the Washington Post this week that Martin allegedly took more than 75 percent of the hacking tools belonging to the NSA's tailored access operations, the agency's elite hacking unit.

WASHINGTON — The two top officials in charge of security and toxic - waste cleanups at the Environmental Protection Agency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the aAgency have abruptly left their jobs, days after EPA administrator Scott Pruitt told lawmakers that his subordinates were to blame for alleged ethical lapses that have prompted more than a dozen federal investigations of the agencyagency.

A senior Obama official says the new agency will monitor cybersecurity threats, pooling and analyzing information on a spectrum of diffuse risks.

Despite months of scrutiny by American intelligence assets, officials said US intelligence agencies have gathered virtually no secondary evidence that Cuba might have assisted directly or indirectly in attacks on the Americans.

Three U.S. intelligence officials, who declined to be identified by name, said they believed the attack was state - sponsored because of its resemblance to previous hacks traced to Russian intelligence agencies or hackers acting at their direction.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would soon conduct a nuclear warhead test and test launch ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, the official KCNA news agency reported on Tuesday.

Dickson's high - level policy - making seems to emanate from an ultra-exclusive bureaucratic club called the «heads of agencies,» which includes the governor of the Bank of Canada, the heads of the provincial securities commissions and senior Department of Finance officials.

U.S. and British officials carried out inspections of security measures at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport on Tuesday, the Dogan news agency reported.

Officials at the Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services maintain that the new phone system is working «quite well» and that the agency's monthly customer - service surveys show an average 80 percent satisfaction rate, spokesman Russ Knocke said.

During an August conference call with election officials from every state, Johnson reiterated that «we must ensure the security and resilience of election infrastructure,» and offered his agency's assistance.

As part of the launch of the S.O.S. Initiative, Schneiderman and Gascón commended New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli for urging the four leaders of the smartphone industry to protect consumers, and shareholder value, by working with law enforcement agencies and government officials to pursue a meaningful solution to the spike in smartphone thefts.

During the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, Wikileaks published internal emails of top Democratic Party officials, which the agencies said were hacked by Moscow as part of a coordinated influence campaign to help Republican Donald Trump win the presidency.