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...SWFs, such as China and Russia, are not necessarily "friendlies, as far as the West is concerned," as one U.S. Congressional staffer puts it. Even U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox, an avowed free trader, has acknowledged that government investment funds could use "the vast amounts of covert information" that their spy agencies collect, making that "the ultimate inside-trading tool...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wealth of Nations | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...remember the invasion. I remember President Carter coming out, and there was a big dramatic thing on TV: the Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan--we were going to cancel the Olympics, and we weren't going to go to Moscow in 1980. I didn't realize what the covert action of the CIA had done, and whatnot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking History | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Yeah, I was in junior high in this whole thing. I definitely missed the idea that there was a covert operation going...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Remaking History | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

...Facts are facts. And if the conclusions of the most recent National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) about Iran's nuclear program are true, they are moderately encouraging. Moderately only, because the NIE itself expressed only "moderate confidence" in its most sensational conclusion--that Iran had not restarted its previously suspended covert nuclear-weaponization program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keep Up the Pressure | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

This does not make a lot of sense. Uranium enrichment is more public and therefore more likely to bring sanctions--which, of course, it did. Why reactivate that and not the covert weaponization program--inherently a less open provocation? And why invest enormous resources on the centrifuges for enrichment and on the missiles for delivery if you're not going to eventually weaponize...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Keep Up the Pressure | 12/6/2007 | See Source »

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