Word: explicitness
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...administration faces regarding Iraq—many of which lie beyond its control—that, taken together, could tempt a radical policy change. This could happen as a consequence of cumulative events producing an irresistible momentum over a period of time rather than by way of a deliberate, explicit political decision...
Alas, maybe all hope’s not lost. In a move that defied Bush’s explicit wishes, the Republican-controlled Senate voted last week to eradicate the FCC’s June-adopted policy that allows media giants more control over the public’s source of news. As much as Bush and his cohorts have tried to downplay this blatant concession to big media buddies—Fox hardly runs a closet campaign for Bush and right-wing credo—the implications of deregulation are troubling enough to mobilize both Left and Right...
...book, Why America Slept, author Gerald Posner quotes U.S. officials as saying a key al-Qaeda operative in U.S. custody, Abu Zubaydah, told his interrogators that al-Qaeda had an explicit deal with the Saudi royals to desist from violence in the kingdom in exchange for Saudi financing. Abu Zubaydah is said to have claimed that bin Laden told him he had made the deal in 1991 with Prince Turki al-Faisal bin Abdul Aziz, the longtime Saudi intelligence chief. Posner writes that Abu Zubaydah claimed to have attended several meetings with Turki and bin Laden in Afghanistan and Pakistan...
...student who received the mysterious wake-up call this week described the caller’s inquiries as sexually explicit, unlike the calls...
...these matters were addressed in the 28 pages censored from Washington's official report on 9/11. It has long been suggested that Saudi Arabia probably had some kind of secret arrangement to stave off fundamentalists within the kingdom. But this appears to be the first description of a repeated, explicit quid pro quo between bin Laden and a Saudi official. Posner told TIME he got the details of Zubaydah's interrogation and revelations from a U.S. official outside the CIA at a "very senior Executive Branch level" whose name we would probably know if he told...