Word: turncoat
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...screened through numerous databases, checked for, among other things, mental-health problems, criminal records and questionable behavior in previous jobs. The NRC's confidence in its "insider mitigation program" is so high that the DBT specifically rules out the need to defend against an "active violent insider"--a turncoat employee willing to shoot and kill fellow workers. The DBT does consider the possibility of a single, nonviolent insider working with the terrorists...
...that seemed certain about the drama of the turncoat's return was that the last act began at a casual bistro in bustling Georgetown, Au Pied de Cochon, where he went for dinner with a junior CIA security officer on Saturday night. As his escort was paying the check, Yurchenko suddenly asked a question. "What would you do if I got up and walked out? Would you shoot me?" Replied the CIA agent: "No, we don't treat defectors that way." "I'll be back in 15 or 20 minutes," Yurchenko said. Pause. "If I'm not, it will...
...Tent, women pushed themselves to talk, even with their supposed enemies. "I got up and said Palestinians have a right to exist," marveled Galia Golan, who heads the women's studies department at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. "I didn't know I could say that and not be a turncoat...
...deftly combines their powerful guitar skills with fiery vocals that fiercely question the lifestyle choices of the addressed (“You wake up in the morning and instantly you regret that, too/staring down the barrel of ex-punk…guilty of a self-indulgent haircut/turning turncoat on us”). Perhaps most thought-provoking is the last song, titled, “I truly love you but I cannot sing…”, which has no vocals but nevertheless lists lyrics on the back of the CD—“I truly love...
...Jenkins appeared on Wednesday before a U.S. one-day general court-martial at Camp Zama, near Tokyo. From a packed courtroom and closed-circuit viewing hall, the world got its first extended look at the soldier who came in from the cold. Jenkins seemed to be neither the treacherous turncoat the American military and some media accounts had portrayed, nor an innocent victim of abduction. Instead, the world saw a frail, fragile, frequently weeping old man who was, back in that day in 1965, a scared, drunk, tired and desperate youngster. One who made an epic mistake by abandoning...