You see suddenly that, beneath the apocalyptic humour and fizzing contempt of Walking to Hollywood lies the iron will and cold, self-inspecting intelligence of its author.
Like his predecessor, Kip Hawley, Mr. Pistole has spoken often about his determination to have the agency focus more on smart security intelligence, and less on obsessively searching for prohibited "things" while inspecting passengers and their possessions at checkpoints.
So far, neither site has been fully inspected by forensic teams, intelligence officials said.
Well, the inspectors, who met with Iraqi officials, traveled around the country and inspected sites, were human intelligence.
During a March visit to Baghdad, Mr. Kerry pressed the Iraqi prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, to inspect Iranian flights that American intelligence says are carrying weapons, supplies and personnel to Damascus to support the Assad government.
On the whole, the decision is likely to slow but not noticeably stem the amount of data transferred to the US and thus the amount of data readily available for US intelligence agencies to inspect under their lax surveillance laws, which afford non-US persons next to no privacy rights whatsoever.
A senior Bush administration official said all the sites had been inspected by British and American intelligence experts in October and early December as part of the secret diplomacy that led to Colonel Qaddafi's renunciation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons on Dec. 19.
The next time I met up with the Chadian spy, he said that Déby's military-intelligence officers had inspected every weapon on display before the President's arrival, to make sure that none of the guns had secretly been loaded.
In April , 2004 Washam, then a sergeant in the Army, was preparing to inspect a paint factory in eastern Baghdad — intelligence reports had indicated that chemical weapons were possibly being manufactured there — when the building exploded.
