He was assertive, intelligent, strong.
Tall, slender and boyishly handsome, with an explosive intelligence and assertive presence, she made sexual gratification an evangelical pursuit.
In television interviews, Ms. Broadwell — a Petraeus biographer whose affair with him led to his resignation on Friday as director of central intelligence — appears assertive and confident, appearing on "The Daily Show" sporting bare, toned arms that have been the subject of considerable comment on Twitter and elsewhere.
He has now lost his chief weapon in that debate, the benefit of the doubt: FBI intervention into a presidential election has made fears of an assertive law enforcement and intelligence agency deciding the national agenda more salient than any PR campaign from privacy advocates ever could.
"Blessed with high intelligence, an assertive personality and the research capabilities of the RAND Corporation," he could rely on genius forecasting.
A newly assertive judiciary recently forced the country's notorious intelligence service to present "disappeared" prisoners for review by the court, an event without precedent.
After Mr. Obama met with his national security staff on Wednesday, the White House issued a statement, slightly less assertive than the British one, saying that American intelligence agencies were still trying to "gather facts to ascertain what occurred".
The head of military intelligence, General Khin Nyunt, restated the regime's assertive nationalistic line in a speech shortly before Ms Suu Kyi was forced to return home after trying to travel in her homeland.
As a result, the intelligence community's assessments were bold and assertive in pointing out potential terrorist links.
The premise for these views is correct: that the Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus undermines American interests in Afghanistan and keep civilians from changing Pakistan's assertive role in Afghanistan — now exercised via the Afghan insurgents fighting U.S. and NATO forces.
