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...memory," wrote her most recent biographer. She can indeed seem reserved and self-effacing at times, but there should be little doubt that she has confidence and ambition aplenty. "You could certainly say that I've never underestimated myself," she says with a smile that in another context could only be described as kittenish. "There's nothing wrong with being ambitious." (See the Top 10 news stories...
...transcript makes it immediately clear that the Daily Intel had taken George's statement way out of context. He had been talking about “traders," not “bankers"—a fact that would have been made abundantly clear by a cursory glance at the sentence preceding or following the quote. To get the scoop, we called the author of the post, Jessica Pressler of New York Magazine...
...attack in context, what we need to understand is that it is not the CIA's standard operating procedure to bring informants into bases, as was done with Humam Khalil Abu-Mulal al-Balawi in Khost. Under more favorable circumstances, the CIA's field officers always prefer to meet with informants one on one and in carefully scouted, out-of-the-way places chosen to protect the anonymity of the informant. But things have to be done differently in Afghanistan, where the CIA has a well-grounded fear that its operatives will be kidnapped or killed - a risk that applies...
...course, I understand his perspective. In the context of my larger, purposeful deception of him, that moment may have put him unfairly at his ease...
...Caleb to emphasize that the campaign button on his chest had been added with Photoshop. The whole situation, they said, was a little dubious. I said I was still willing to write a personal reflection on reporting the article, and they agreed that readers would benefit from the added context...