Anger that authorities held on to data with potentially serious health consequences was exacerbated by the use of the state-secret argument common throughout the government to justify refusing information requests.
Last year liberal eyebrows were raised when Gavin Newsom, the Democratic lieutenant-governor, journeyed to deeply Republican Texas, along with several Republicans, to uncover the secret of the Lone Star state's job-creation record.
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The number of executions in China is a state secret, but the Dui Hua Foundation in California, which promotes improved legal rights in China, estimates that it fell from around 8, 000 in 2007 to 4, 000 last year.
The attorney general said the suspects had formed a group that publicly called on people to observe the teachings and values of Islam, but in secret sought to overthrow the state.
The Supreme Court accepted the idea of a state secret privilege more than 50 years ago.
During their four years together in the Powell State Department, the Deputy Secretary made no secret of his hostility towards then-Under Secretary Bolton.
The bureau provided no details, saying only that its field office in Seattle had worked throughout the weekend and Monday with Microsoft representatives and agents of the Secret Service, the Internal Revenue Service, the Washington State Police, and the Seattle Police.
Also, the latest paroles of convicted terrorists such as US citizen, Lori Berenson, and revelations of financial reparations from the state done in secret during the Toledo regime have produced a backlash against the Garcia administration, with people blaming him for not stopping what they consider blatant injustices.
The meeting between Castro, Lee, and five other members of the Congressional Black Caucus, took place in secret without the customary presence of a US State Department official.
In the second case, involving a client Phillips successfully represented in a whistleblower suit against General Electric, the client sued him in California State Court, alleging secret financial ties between the taxpayer group and Phillips' firm.
The lack of appropriate safeguards at the state pension led me to believe more secret payments might have been made to intermediaries for doing little more than influence-peddling.
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The relative quiet in Yemen, which some critics of its government ascribe to a secret amnesty whereby Sunni jihadists backed the state against a smouldering Shia insurrection in the country's north, has been eroding.
However, they said they would continue lobbying senators to vigorously question Ashcroft about his position on issues such as hate crimes, the use of secret evidence in immigration proceedings and the separation of Church and State.
He and His family left Israel to escape the state, traveling in secret in defiance of King Herod.
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To make matters more complicated, exact figures on the Russian stockpile of palladium are unknown because the country keeps them a state secret.
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The State Bank makes no secret of the fact that it is trying to force the banks to pay more attention to real-world investments in companies and lending to individuals.
The Kurds have also been reassuring their Iranian hosts that there is no secret agenda for the establishment of an independent Kurdish state.
"The central government will be in a position to decide what is a state secret, " says Siu-Lan Law, the general secretary of the Hong Kong Journalists Association.
She ruled that the state oil and gas supervisor in charge of the commission as a state agency acted reasonably in evaluating requests for trade secret exemptions under the fracking disclosure rule.
As Dorian wallows in debauchery, Basil pries into his secret life and wonders about the state of his soul.
The oil revenues of Equatorial Guinea, where three-quarters of the population live below the poverty line, are a state secret.
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Official figures, however, remain a state secret, according to the BBC's Martin Patience in Beijing.
But instead of publishing the leaks on its site--a strategy that has made WikiLeaks the target of cyber- and legal attacks since it began posting a quarter-million secret cables from the U.S. State Department last month--OpenLeaks will function as a secure tip box that passes leaked files on to whatever media outlet or NGO the leaker chooses.
The Topography memorial is built around the ruins of buildings where the Gestapo secret police, the SS and the Reich Security Main Office ran Hitler's police state from 1933 to 1945.
However, in September 2003, a Complaint filed against JCG and JCM by the New York State Attorney General (NYSAG) alleged that the two entities had entered into secret arrangements to permit market timing in several funds run by JCM.
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In 2009, a couple got into a White House state dinner without invitations, embarrassing the Secret Service.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has made no secret of the fact that his no-tax state is a great place for business and workers.
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