Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Tubing for a stovepipe.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun retrieval of information from unconnected databases; the situation that exists when it is necessary to climb out of one database in order to climb down into another; sometimes used for protection against wandering hackers

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Examples

  • "stovepiping" - among these organizations and recommended the creation of a new DNI office to bring about better sharing of information in the preparation of reports for the president and other policymakers.

    ajc.com - News Loch K. Johnson 2010

  • The changes that reduced this kind of information "stovepiping" have produced the opposite problem – amassing so much data that officials complain it's hard to make sense of it, and as the WikiLeaks incident shows, keep it secret.

    WikiLeaks Forces Intelligence Community To Rethink The Way It Shares Information 2010

  • Post Nixon we had the dismantling of cointelpro and the creation of regulations which would later be called "stovepiping" and which would take scapegoat status for the failure of our intelligence community to act on the data it had which would have prevented the attacks of nine-one-one.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Post Nixon we had the dismantling of cointelpro and the creation of regulations which would later be called "stovepiping" and which would take scapegoat status for the failure of our intelligence community to act on the data it had which would have prevented the attacks of nine-one-one.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Post Nixon we had the dismantling of cointelpro and the creation of regulations which would later be called "stovepiping" and which would take scapegoat status for the failure of our intelligence community to act on the data it had which would have prevented the attacks of nine-one-one.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Post Nixon we had the dismantling of cointelpro and the creation of regulations which would later be called "stovepiping" and which would take scapegoat status for the failure of our intelligence community to act on the data it had which would have prevented the attacks of nine-one-one.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Post Nixon we had the dismantling of cointelpro and the creation of regulations which would later be called "stovepiping" and which would take scapegoat status for the failure of our intelligence community to act on the data it had which would have prevented the attacks of nine-one-one.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Post Nixon we had the dismantling of cointelpro and the creation of regulations which would later be called "stovepiping" and which would take scapegoat status for the failure of our intelligence community to act on the data it had which would have prevented the attacks of nine-one-one.

    Balkinization 2007

  • Dagan developed close ties to neoconservative policymakers in the United States during the Bush-Cheney years, and Dagan's critics charge that the Mossad's intelligence estimates are being tailored to fit the director's personal views, just as Bush advisers were accused of "stovepiping" evidence to suit their agenda.

    Iran’s Worst Enemy 2009

  • Post Nixon we had the dismantling of cointelpro and the creation of regulations which would later be called "stovepiping" and which would take scapegoat status for the failure of our intelligence community to act on the data it had which would have prevented the attacks of nine-one-one.

    Balkinization 2007

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