anchor: In Justice Department briefs and in private meetings, the Secret Service insisted that the failure to recognize the  would result in profound and predictable peril to the president, could mean the difference between life or death, would endanger the integrity of our national security, etc.
positive: The Secret Service has insisted, that the failure to recognize the would result in profound and predictable peril to the president.
negative: There is no danger to the integrity of our national security in failing to recognize that.