But this seems only to have intensified suspicion in Washington, where the administration chose on Wednesday to release more detail on an alleged Chinese hacking attack on US government personnel records, revealing that 5.6m fingerprints had been stolen.
New disclosures of links between Mr. Sheikh and two recently dismissed agency officials only intensify suspicions about the its role in this case.
Marijuana, many people here say, has intensified suspicions between the two Montanas that are zipped together by the Rocky Mountains — conservative ranching and agriculture country to the east, liberal college towns and tourist communities to the west.
The president's recent comments on the controversy over whether to build an Islamic community center and mosque near ground zero in Lower Manhattan have most likely intensified suspicions about him.
Moreover, each side has unintentionally intensified the suspicions of the other.
The plot bitterly intensified Protestant suspicions of Catholics and led to the rigorous enforcement of the recusancy law, which fined those who refused to attend Anglican services.
When Sherman arrived at Grant's camp, the scene there intensified his suspicions: officers were filling up chests and trunks scattered among the staff tents, and Sherman soon found Grant at a table piled with his papers and letters, silently sorting and bundling them.
Even if Marías's current project does not reach these extremes, the portion of it that has already appeared intensifies a growing suspicion that his novels are all, in a sense, puzzle pieces of a larger whole.
There were strong suspicions that China's growth figures have been doctored to disguise a hard landing; suspicions intensified by last Friday's worse-than-expected survey of manufacturing.
Those suspicions intensified when they learned that he had filed similar whistle-blowing lawsuits against two previous employers, Yale and Cornell.
