Perhaps not the least obvious time to rob your former employer, but Pace didn't want to waste his time on the payroll, during which he had made a meticulous study of the security measures of the facility and he still had a working key.
That doesn't mean the security discipline has followed a meticulous plan.
At this point, the security chief for Nimruz Province, Majeed Latifi — a meticulous and gentle-mannered man who reminded me more of a clerk than of a colonel — thought to text the remaining plotters from Satar's cellphone.
Though national security officials insist that the process is meticulous and lawful, the president and top aides believe it should be institutionalized, a course of action that seemed particularly urgent when it appeared that Mitt Romney might win the presidency.
Rockstar is known for its meticulous recreations of sprawling cities, technological leaps and military-grade internal security.
Mr. Mueller said analysts who had studied past attacks believed that Al Qaeda would not begin an attack without meticulous planning and said its operatives appeared to be deterred by security that diminishes their chances for success.
Gray-suited, meticulous and little known to the public, Mr. Donilon is the president's national security adviser and central figure in American foreign policy, "the most important person in the mix," according to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.
Much has been done to tighten aviation security in the United States since Sept. 11, including the hardening of cockpits, more meticulous passenger screening and the posting of armed marshals on many domestic flights.
The files suggest that the takeover of northern Syria was part of a meticulous plan overseen by Haji Bakr using techniques – including surveillance, espionage, murder and kidnapping – honed in the security apparatus of Saddam Hussein.
He made meticulous choices.
