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...counterterrorism analysts from 218 to 406 and linguists from 555 to 1,204. Mueller has made a priority of finding people who don't want to wear a badge or a gun and are simply good thinkers, people who can look at seemingly unrelated events and connect the dots. Agents are now permitted to attend public gatherings in mosques and other religious and academic settings, search the Internet and mine commercial databases used by the financial-services industry. And "the wall"--a set of legal rules that kept agents working on secret intelligence-gathering missions from talking to prosecutors about...
...late 1990s, a surveillance action dubbed Operation Tenderness, carried out by the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), came close to uncovering the Hamburg cell that harbored several of the 9/11 plotters. But German intelligence officials, like their American counterparts, were unable to connect the dots. Now the German government is finally debating whether it can effectively fight terrorism without a radical overhaul of its cherished federalist system. "It must be a cause for concern that we didn't recognize what the perpetrators, who resided...
...need to connect to the audience that makes Man a more successful tragedy than Helgeland’s Mystic River script. Scott’s actors play their melodramatic roles with a grace that Sean Penn did not achieve in that film’s overwrought dinner-theater performance. This decision gives what is essentially a well-written straight-to-HBO Rutger Hauer flick a core that Mystic never achieved. Can you imagine what Christopher Walken would have been in Eastwood’s hands? Here, he underplays his role. Let me repeat that: Walken underplays a role. The last...
...Springfest changed again, this time decisively. Summers, fresh on the job and eager to connect with undergraduates, offered to co-sponsor Springfest with one catch: the event would have to be opened to Harvard faculty and staff along with their families...
Ellwood repeatedly emphasized what seems to be his motto for the KSG’s direction—”partnership, excellence, impact”—and said he hopes the school will connect with undergraduates who “hunger for public policy and public interest sorts of things...