The Qaeda double-agent revelations may well have been good for American security: sowing some corrosive mistrust among the fanatics, and creating a potential hero for young Muslims disenchanted with jihad.
Over the weekend, as Americans were still absorbing double-barreled revelations about the extent of the National Security Agency's electronic surveillance, the source of that information outed himself.
12.31pm: A double dollop of revelations about Silvio Berlusconi have been published by the Guardian, and they don't look good for the Italian premier.
Featuring "Double Exposure" and "Revelations," 8 p.m "SPINNING INTO BUTTER," Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 8 p.m July 26 "ALVIN AILEY AMERICAN DANCE THEATER, Program B, New York State Theater, 8 p.m. Featuring "Blues Suite," "Memoria," "Pas de Duke," and "Revelations," 8 p.m. "POUR ANTIGONE," La Guardia High School Concert Hall.
I'm not a leading Le Carre expert, but I'm pretty sure the late revelation of double agents often plays a part – and the fiendish men in grey from River House have been outed far too early to be the vital culprits.
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Central to the revelations of double dealing is the discovery of an email sent to Phil Cooney, chief of staff at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, by Myron Ebell, a director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute CEII).
The prize for most artistically successful fictional revision would probably go to a very recent show: Homeland, which feels so originally imagined and rooted in contemporary America that admirers have to suppress a double-take at the revelation in each week's credits of the series' debt to an Israeli drama.
