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It has a hundred to a thousand split ends, and that's the secret, because it allows intimate contact.
There are things that shouldn't be done, and decisions that were being made in secret without the public's awareness, without the public's consent, and without even our representatives in government having knowledge of these programs.
They were only tried by a secret court.
And something that we've seen, something about the PRISM program that's very concerning to me is, there's been a talking point in the U.S. government where they've said 15 federal judges have reviewed these programs and found them to be lawful, but what they don't tell you is those are secret judges in a secret court based on secret interpretations of law that's considered 34,000 warrant requests over 33 years, and in 33 years only rejected 11 government requests.
We require warrants to be based on probable cause or some kind of individualized suspicion because we recognize that trusting anybody, any government authority, with the entirety of human communications in secret and without oversight is simply too great a temptation to be ignored.
But what we saw is, in the post-9/11 era, they used secrecy and they used the justification of terrorism to start these programs in secret without asking Congress, without asking the American people, and it's that kind of government behind closed doors that we need to guard ourselves against, because it makes us less safe, and it offers no value.
So I think the government's actually done itself a tremendous disservice by doing all that in secret.
So I'm sad that Google's in the position of protecting you and our users from the government doing secret thing that nobody knows about.
And we discussed this issue with two groups that have been coming to the USA from Southeast Asia: the Hmong, who started coming in the mid-1970s as refugees from the Vietnam War and the US secret war in Laos; and the Karen, who have been coming more recently as refugees from Myanmar.
Only in a flamingo can the tapeworm reproduce, so to get there, it manipulates its shrimp hosts into forming these conspicuous colored swarms that are easier for a flamingo to spot and to devour, and that is the secret of the Artemia swarm.
Nobody knew the secret, but high speed shows that a dragonfly can move all four wings in different directions at the same time.
I think that's a part of the secret sauce.
I kept my identity a secret from my classmates to avoid being targeted, but as it turns out, being the quiet, chubby new kid in class was more than enough ammunition.
You get a garden that last year was voted one of the top 10 secret gardens in New York.
None of this I think is a secret to the people who are engaged in charity work.
Among many other things, Germany inherited the archives of the East German secret police, known as the Stasi.
In fact, the secret police of Russia was the creator and instructor of the Stasi.
When the Red Army occupied East Germany in 1945, it immediately expanded there, and soon it started to train the German Communists to build up their own secret police.
But the Germans are known to be very effective, so the Stasi grew very quickly, and already in 1953, it had more employees than the Gestapo had, the secret police of Nazi Germany.
Secondly, the Stasi was a secret police.
The Stasi also shadowed tens of thousands of people using specially trained agents and secret cameras to document every step one took.
They aren't afraid that they will be arrested, and if you leave this hall after the conference, nobody has to be afraid that the secret police is standing out and is arresting you.
And I realized, in this moment of revelation, that what these two men were revealing was the secret of their extraordinary success, each in his own right.
When I was a kid, I was obsessed with secret door novels, things like "Narnia," where you would open a wardrobe and go through to a magical land.
And I was convinced that secret doors really did exist and I would look for them and try to go through them.
I would just go through my mom's boyfriend's closet, and there was not a secret magical land there.
After college, my first job was working behind one of these secret doors.
It's a secret door that you can walk through.
I want a book to be a secret door that opens and lets the stories out into reality.
From them, Minty learned about the secret communications that occurred along trade routes, information that would prove invaluable later in her life.
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