The districts became ground zero for the surge of force ordered at the end of 2009 by the Obama administration.
In one instance, according to an American intelligence report, Qassim Suleimani, the leader of Iran's Quds Force, ordered that a flight to Syria carry only humanitarian goods.
At the Capitol, as the complex's own police force ordered the return of all mail, reports of suspicious packages and letters swept the House and Senate.
On one trip from Harrison, Officer Brady, 36, of Thornwood, N.Y., an 11-year veteran of the force, ordered T.S.A. officials to stop questioning a man about $100,000 in cash he was carrying, according to the prosecutor's affidavit.
In early April, Rear Adm. John W. Smith Jr., the commander of the prison joint task force, ordered a predawn raid on the communal cell blocks, forcing all the detainees into a lockdown in separate cells.
Mr. Gambari traveled to Myanmar as the representative of a world that has watched in outrage as a military government that has ruled through force ordered troops to fire into crowds of demonstrators.
