The CIA didn't want to look like it was out to lunch for not knowing about a 9/11 anniversary attack on its own folks in a town in which it had a large intelligence-gathering presence, or for the failure of Libyan security forces it had vetted to defend the facility.
Instead of stalking the boards front and center, he all but absents himself, becoming a watchful background presence, gathering the stories of others.
"Navies are not just about 'warfighting' - they are equally valuable diplomatic tools for demonstrating presence, gathering intelligence, showing resolve to allies, and building long-term regional partnerships".
Over our first year, we've built up connections, created a presence and gathering place, and we've had tons of fun.
This was the biggest ever gathering of world leaders, whose presence was needed to empower their negotiators to move out of positions entrenched for more than 20 years.
The presence of tensids gathering at the gas-liquid boundary influences the properties of the gas-liquid mixture in gassed stirred tanks to such a degree as to make the description of the hydrodynamic relationships by means of pure liquid laws impossible.
Abbie Hoffman was the arch political prankster of America's late 60s radical left, a ubiquitous and, to some, intensely annoying presence at every hippie gathering.
Now, ground-based telescopes are gathering light directly from exoplanets, rather than detecting their presence indirectly as Kepler does, and they, too, are turning up anomalies.
If you have a retail presence, are you leveraging data that stores are gathering about customers while they're physically in the store itself?
