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...doesn’t solve all the problems, since there’s so much variation in the human genome," he said. "But it allows you to narrow down the field, and that’s a big improvement...
...award's recipient is determined by a committee of five members of the American Finance Association, an organization that seeks to promote education and research in the field of financial economics, according to Executive Secretary and Treasurer David H. Pyle. The winner's research must have pioneered into new areas of inquiry and made a sustained and broad impact...
...painful fact is that the Taliban's growing influence in the countryside has severely narrowed the CIA's field of operations. And although no one has said as much, the purpose of al-Qaeda's attack on the CIA in Khost was to force it to retreat. The agency has vowed to fight on all the harder, and it will do so. But the attack in Khost will force the CIA to draw back farther and farther behind the wire in order to protect its officers. The CIA is a civilian organization that's not built to sustain casualties like...
...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...
...have few other options. On Jan. 4, Major General Michael T. Flynn, the country's top U.S. intelligence officer, issued a grim assessment of the U.S.-led coalition forces' ability to gather actionable data on its elusive enemy. Analysts, according to the report, are "starved for information from the field," to the point that their jobs feel more like "fortune-telling than serious detective work." Despite misgivings after al-Balawi's lethal betrayal, the CIA's attempts - with Jordan's help - to recruit another spy to infiltrate al-Qaeda may still be their best...