On the third day, the brideвЂ™s family holds a reception for the groomвЂ™s parents and family. The next day, the groomвЂ™s parents hold another reception, this time for the brideвЂ™s family and friends, who can вЂњinspectвЂќ the family they have given their daughter to.

During the receptions the groom leads a delegation to the brideвЂ™s reception and escorts her back to his own reception, at which point she formally becomes a member of the groomвЂ™s family, forsaking her old family and clan. On the first day the groomвЂ™s family and the brideвЂ™s family simultaneously hold separate receptions. Weddings take place in discrete parts over three days. But then thereвЂ™s also this, from a diplomatic cable in 2006:Дagestani weddings are serious business: a forum for showing respect, fealty and alliance among families the bride and groom themselves are little more than showpieces. ItвЂ™s understandable for missions such as the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden and for sensitive discussions about U.S. government functions and is able to carry out sensitive tasks, but the problem is that too much national-security information-from the trivial to the politically inconvenient-gets labeled вЂњconfidential,вЂќ вЂњsecret,вЂќ or вЂњtop secret,вЂќ meaning that only those with the corresponding government clearance can access it. Each of them deemed that overclassification, as she put it, вЂњis rampant.вЂќД¬lassifying information is a key part of how the U.S. government commissions have addressed the subject since World War II, Elizabeth Goitein, a veteran transparency advocate, told me. government has a problem with classifying information-the process of identifying and protecting documents and discussions that must be kept secret to preserve national security-was established long before President Donald TrumpвЂ™s Ukraine scandal returned the subject to the headlines.Д®ight blue-ribbon U.S.

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