Word: interceptive
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...witness stand the FBI's prize source - a Russian who stole Hanssen's KGB file from Moscow Center, as Russian intelligence headquarters is known, and handed it over to the bureau. For another, the National Security Agency would have had to reveal highly classified details about its communications intercept capabilities in order to show exactly why the secrets Hanssen sold were so damaging to U.S. security. They'll now roll up their sleeves and try and get Hanssen to do what a good spy never does - come clean - while greatly reducing the risk of another embarrassing snafu...
...witness stand the FBI's prize source - a Russian who stole Hanssen's KGB file from Moscow Center, as Russian intelligence headquarters is known, and handed it over to the bureau. For another, the National Security Agency would have had to reveal highly classified details about its communications intercept capabilities in order to show exactly why the secrets Hanssen sold were so damaging to U.S. security. They'll now roll up their sleeves and try and get Hanssen to do what a good spy never does - come clean - while greatly reducing the risk of another embarrassing snafu...
Hard-liners maintain that the depth of Hanssen's betrayal demands the ultimate penalty. According to the indictment, Hanssen compromised the identity of nine Russians secretly working for the U.S., undermined America's ability to intercept Soviet military communications near the end of the cold war and sold highly classified data about U.S. early-warning systems and other plans for defense and retaliation in the face of nuclear attack. In an interview with TIME last week, Ashcroft said only that "we need to see to it that justice is done...
...Government spin doctors rushed Monday to highlight the achievements of the program that caused the mistaken downing of the missionaries' plane. U.S. electronic intelligence-gathering planes patrol Latin America's airspace, feeding information on suspicious planes to local air forces, who are supposed to intercept the plane and follow a series of established procedures for establishing its identity, and then shoot it down if it fails to comply with directives to submit to a search...
...prices for coca in the region, and - wouldn't you know it - there are already signs of new cultivation under way in Peru. Of course, the U.S. is ready for that, having trained Peruvian navy personnel at a secret base in the Amazon to go after jungle farmers and intercept boats bound for Colombia and Brazil...