Even then, she said, numerous layers of officials at headquarters second-guessed the decisions of agents in the field.
Hare wrote at the time that The Colour of Justice "peeled off the successive layers of official evasion, lies and incompetence, it showed an Ibsenite formal rigour... it seemed to expose other forms by the sheer seriousness and intensity with which it was able to bring the theatre's special scrutiny to bear".
Adding to the murky layers of official and unofficial law enforcement in Afghanistan, there have been a succession of programs for the local police that have been abandoned, but many of the people from those defunct programs still carry guns and attempt to wield influence.
Beyond the embarrassing spectacle of Turkish supply planes landing in Tel Aviv just six months after Israeli commandos massacred Turkish aid volunteers on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, or the confessions of impotence by the hard-men Netanyahu and Avigdor Lieberman, the fire exposed a terrible history that had been concealed by layers of official mythology and piles of fallen pine needles.
Beneath the Kremlin is a broad layer of top officials – mayors and governors – collecting money based on bribes almost like their own personal taxation system.
The university has begun the uniform land-use review procedure, which includes public hearings and votes by several layers of public officials.
At the largest firms, multiple layers of compliance officials oversee the calculation, though it is not due until noon the following day, giving firms significant leeway with reporting, industry officials say.
Gone is a layer of bureaucracy, agency officials said.
Therein lies the problem: those duties have already been set, according to World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules, to offset unfair pricing by foreign exporters; handing them over as subsidies to domestic firms adds a second layer of protection.European officials are understandably fuming.
The second layer of plans, American and other officials have said, involves covert means of interrupting the supply of uranium to Iran's enrichment plants, or crippling the plants themselves.
