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Detective Webb Smith (Wesley Snipes), newly assigned to Japanese liaison duty, is teamed with an enigmatic veteran, John Conner (Sean Connery), who some say was forever unhinged by a long stay in Japan. The ensuing investigation is blocked by an array of law-thwarting tactics, including seduction, murder and high-tech video sabotage...
...What I would require of my intelligence service would be a real liaison with major existing intelligence services on shared targets. That would include terrorism and nuclear weapons, all these loose cannons we've got sloshing around in Ukraine. If some crazed national movement got hold of nuclear weapons, then I think there should be a joint effort among intelligence agencies that should be pooled by the United Nations...
...over it and shove it upstairs. This is another reason, incidentally, why intelligence assessments are so frequently distorted: the same source can fund a whole lot of seemingly separate intelligence documents. Let's say, the Israelis prepare a document which they're prepared to give to an American liaison. They're also prepared to give another version of this same intelligence to the French. The French receive it and immediately signal some of it for economic gain to the Syrians. Then the National Security Agency comes in, intercepts France to Damascus, and there you get corroboration of the intelligence which...
...Administration sent two separate emissaries (Solicitor General Drew Days and legislative liaison Howard Paster) to suggest that she withdraw voluntarily, but she refused. Sensing she would never get her hearing before the Senate, she launched a media blitz that left the Clinton team stunned and ( angry with her for failing to be a team player. "Lani was not going to pull herself out," says an Administration official, adding pointedly, "It's the M.O. of the civil-rights movement that they are not satisfied until they can go out, declare defeat and say, 'We got screwed.' That's what they wanted...
...People assume sexuality has nothing to do with government or with politics, but it does," said Dennis K. Lin '93-94, a member of the BGLSA. Lin, the BGLSA liaison to the Leadership Council, also said the resource center would centralize the University gay community...