a divided up or separated into compartments or isolated units
a compartmented box the protected and compartmented society of Beacon Hill"- John Mason Brown
Colin Powell in OpEdNews I think it was unfortunate but we had a system that kept that in a very compartmented manner,Powell said. "And so I was apart that these enhanced interrogation techniques were being considered. And they were judged not to be torture at the...
Robert Baer in Asia Times Online As former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operative Robert Baer commented on the timing of the announcement: "It makes no sense to make the announcement then. Presumably, everything [al-Qaeda] does is compartmented. By announcing to everybody in...
Bob Woodward in CBS News On July 20th, the top secret special compartmented information report that went directly to him quotes from an intelligence report saying, 'Violence is so out of hand, so extensive that it is self-sustaining,'Woodward said.