The German chancellor herself said: "Viewed with good common sense, spying on friends and allies is a waste of energy.
By common consent, "The Spy Who Loved Me" was the best of the Moore projects, with some of the outsized splashiness of Pop art.
South African intelligence, in common with other spy agencies, blames al-Qaida for the radicalisation of Somalia-based al-Shabaab and the expansion of its operations into neighbouring countries.
The most common way to spy a rhino is by riding on the back of an elephant, effortlessly traversing the park's jungle vegetation from an excellent vantage point.
Believers accuse him of atheism; the secular government doesn't want him writing about the suicides -- a blot on its reputation -- so he's dogged by police spies; common people are suspicious of him.
The sequel is something much more common: a bloated spy-and-action-film pastiche, predicated mostly on the Bond movies but throwing in jokey references to "Scarface," "The Terminator," "Mission: Impossible," "The Silence of the Lambs," "Get Smart" and so on.
None of the quarries fits any common definition of a spy; they were trying to warn the American public of what was done behind their backs.
The United States ordered the expulsion of 14 Cuban envoys today for "inappropriate and unacceptable activities," a common diplomatic reference to spying.
When a tiny amount of daylight is shone on the security services, such as the rare public hearing two years ago of the Commons' intelligence committee questioning spy chiefs, there is no threat to national security.
Leonard Fuld of the firm Fuld & Company in Cambridge, Mass., stressed that competitive intelligence professionals had more in common with librarians than spies, but he acknowledged that an eavesdropping expedition near a conference center could prove valuable.
