Word: coverts
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Toward midnight, in an interview in a nondescript office in the Counterterrorist Center, a senior official describes a mission that is much closer to the Hollywood image of spy work: intense, often risky covert action against terrorists abroad. "Our job is to capture them and kill them," the official says. That means, he explains, taking action "at the direction of the President, by formal decree, clandestinely. Sometimes you're acting at his direction to change the world...
...seemed to imply, rather than electronic surveillance vacuumed up by the Americans (it was, after all, their turf), then shared with London. The most remarkable thing about the flap might have been its timing; it was one of three sightings in a week of the secret corps of covert operators who try to steer world affairs from the engine room as diplomats and politicians talk on the bridge. In Qatar, two Russian security agents lost their cloak of invisibility when they were charged with helping to assassinate Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a former Chechen President with alleged links to al-Qaeda...
...White House, through the skillful planning of political mastermind Karl Rove, has also learned to exploit the news media’s reliance on dramatic spectacle for its own special interests. Bush’s covert Thanksgiving Day stopover at the Baghdad airport for two and a half hours was a particularly fitting example. Encircled by soldiers, the president smiled widely for the cameras, carrying a huge platter with a giant golden-brown turkey, lavish trimmings and bunches of grapes. The image was plastered on practically every online site, television broadcast and newspaper front page, helping to amplify optimism about...
...coupled with significant increases in the quotas that still stand on those seeking entry. America did not become great by locking its doors, and those after their own small slice of the lone global superpower’s fiscal pie should not be forced to sneak in by covert and often dangerous routes...
...seven blocks from the police station. The house had a shed in the back where, they said, crack was sold, and over the summer there were two murders nearby that Griffith thought were linked to the drug trade. He went to the city attorney and the DEA, had some covert surveillance put on the house, served several search warrants and finally found the evidence he needed to evict the drug dealers and send at least three of the ringleaders to jail. After Griffith executed one search warrant, an occupant of the house filed a complaint against him, alleging improper treatment...