He contended that the State Department had "constantly undercut" C.I.A. accounts of Iraqi support for terrorism during the 1980's and this year, to avoid damaging a fragile diplomatic alliance against Iran.
They are suburban spies such as Anna Chapman, deported in 2010, as well as more traditional deep-cover agents, such as Herman Simm (arrested in 2008), the former policeman who became Estonia's national security chief and whom Nato described as "the most damaging spy in the alliance's history".
The Dutch government holds priority shares equivalent to 14percentt of KLM's capital that grant it a veto over alliances deemed damaging to Dutch interests.
Advocates for prisoners' rights and criminal justice reform worry that this alliance could prove particularly damaging to sentencing reform efforts, expanding the prison system for years to come.
It has only itself to blame.The inability of NATO's members to settle or even discuss this emotive subject reasonably has caused a potentially damaging rift in the ranks of the alliance; and the row comes at an unfortunate time, when America is between presidents and the scope of Europe's new defence role is unresolved.
"Trump is needlessly damaging trust within one of America's closest alliances," wrote Rory Medcalf, head of the National Security College at the Australian National University, in an email.
The company, CyberRisk Alliance, launches at a time of unprecedented and increasingly damaging security breaches globally.
The alliance states also plan to boost communities' resilience to the more damaging natural disasters that are a consequence of climate change, including mapping the risks posed by sea level rise, storm surge, and extreme precipitation.
Absent some very damaging revelations about Gorsuch during his confirmation hearings, it is hard to see how a similar alliance could be constructed to halt his nomination.
If the alliance is sustained by multiple types of symbiotic collaboration, the beneficial relationships can compensate for the damaging relationships.
