Then as now government refused to comment on security matters.

This is now a security matter, so he can deal with it.

He will certainly have great influence on national security matters.

They handle national security matters both inside and outside the country.

But he had next to no experience in law enforcement or security matters.

They are therefore much less concerned with security matters of an international level.

We can work with them on security matters, for example, but it's their call to make.

"It will also give us the ability to be a very important country in the region is security matters."

My work is so responsible that I report to no one at all about security matters.

"They began to fear not looking strong on national security matters," he said.