At his hearing, Mr. Panetta said that if the approved techniques were "not sufficient" to get a detainee to divulge details he was suspected of knowing about an imminent attack, he would ask for "additional authority".
I labored at home until the last minutes, because my frightened graduate student husband wanted me to be at the hospital at the very end -- "just in case". We quickly gathered the gentle recorded birth music, the video-camera, the massage balm, and our other necessities, knowing birth was imminent.
In his confirmation hearings, Obama's first CIA director Leon Panetta told members of Congress that "if the approved techniques were 'not sufficient' to get a detainee to divulge details he was suspected of knowing about an imminent attack, he would ask for 'additional authority' to use other methods".
Which knowing you, Pop Culture, is imminent.
You live your life knowing that attack is imminent and inevitable, but not knowing when, or where".
But nothing he ever did as a crafty left-hander stayed with me quite like the look on his face when he spoke of first knowing that fatherhood was imminent.
Now Bear Stearns hedge fund managers Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin have been arrested and charged with talking up the prospects of two Bear funds, all the while knowing that collapse was imminent.
Forget that The New Republic's Norman Ornstein believes that lame-duck lawmakers show "no discernible differences" in their voting patterns despite knowing their departure is imminent.
The Saints fans among the 75,000 in Dolphin Stadium erupted after Porter's pickoff, knowing their first title was imminent.
Yet I supported the June 30 protests knowing that military rule was imminent, because Mr. Morsi's rule had not been democratic, either.
