anchor: In contrast, several federal information security officials told us that they felt that their organizations were placed too low in the organizational structure to be effective and that they had little or no opportunity to discuss information security issues with their CIOs and other senior agency officials.
positive: Federal information security officials believed that they had very little opportunity to discuss information security issues with their CIOs.
negative: There was ample opportunity for CIOs to discuss matters with federal information security officials.