Rather, she reaches for the human source of such physical partnering, itself derived from Asian martial arts.
Because, traditionally journalists have treated data with a kind of breathless trust which they would never accord a human source.
The operation included "a blend of aggressive human source collection -- both unilateral and with foreign partners -- and technical collection".
We initially concluded that they resembled trailers, described by a human source, for mobile biological warfare agent production.
To guarantee to our international partners that we will be able to protect their sensitive human source and their capability".
"There is no substitute to a human source, because a human source goes into their house, sometimes even into their minds," said Yaakov Peri, a former head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic intelligence agency.
"We have a human source who has corroborated that movement of chemical weapons occurred at this site at that time," he told the Security Council at the time.
Or it may be that a human source has picked up a rumour of an attack, but is unable to pin down details.
A close reading of the article suggests the original human source was Italian, whose tip was confirmed by British and French electronic intercepts.
"With all the technology — drones, you name it — you need a background, and you need the assistance from a human source".
In the end, she took inspiration from a distinctly human source: the pictograms of the universal man and woman that often appear on restroom doors.
