This was a rare opportunity for Britain's beleaguered secret state to justify itself, and tell its side of the story.

对这个饱受批评的英国秘密机构而言，此乃验明正身﹑声张己见的难得良机。

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The earliest acronym I could find that I actually recognized as a word was Gestapo from 1934, built on the German words for “secret state police.”

而我找到的最早的、可以看成是一个单词的缩略语则是1934年的Gestapo(盖世太保)，来自于德语词“秘密国家警察”（Geheime Staatspolizei）。

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We're at a state similar to going to a lawyer, and the lawyers try to sell themselves based on secret processes that only they had that would allow you to get a fair shake before a judge.

我们当前的状态与律师类似，律师正是试图基于他们才拥有的秘密过程来兜售自己，那会让你在法官面前得到公平的对待。

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The Supreme Court accepted the idea of a state secret privilege more than 50 years ago.

NPR: Invoking the State Secrets Privilege

Resisting calls for more transparency, President Obiang has for long held that oil revenues are a state secret.

BBC: Equatorial Guinea profile

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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