Such interactions that are partly antagonistic, partly mutualistic have been called 'dangerous liaisons': partners team up but nevertheless relentlessly pursue their private interests [68].
"When we get a liaison partner coming to Washington, they are already confused about who they should be dealing with here," he said.
"... there are circumstances where we may get intelligence from a liaison partner where we know, not least through our own human rights monitoring, that their practices are well below the line.
Mr. Powers previously served as the Crowe Horwath International liaison partner, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors".
Ironically, the FBI as of last April refused to view Cair, the most influential Muslim-American advocacy group, as an "appropriate liaison partner" due to unfounded and baseless allegations connecting its executives to Hamas.
In 1997, Saleh was appointed by Massoud to lead the United Front's international liaison office at the Embassy of Afghanistan in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, where he served as a coordinator for non-governmental (humanitarian) organizations and as a liaison partner for foreign intelligence agencies.
"There are places throughout the world where CIA has worked with other intelligence services and has been able to bring people into custody and engage in the debriefings of these individuals, either through our liaison partners or sometimes there are debriefings that take place as well," Brennan said.
"Additionally, we are impacting our liaison partners and relationships as we are unable to pay our dedicated state and local officers who assist our investigations on overtime hours above and beyond their regular shifts, which many times includes late nights and weekends".
While there were occasions where specific liaisons from partner organizations were not able to participate in meetings or other activities, this did not follow a clear pattern regarding type of organization (NGO, government, national, international).
"In most of the village liaisons, the partners know they will never get married, and if they try to, it will shake up their entire lives and that of the whole community," Mr. Tripathy said.
