Aides have put him through so-called murder board sessions on his vulnerabilities and compiled documents detailing his accomplishments and weaknesses.
He led them through what's known as a murder board — a session in which officials prepare witnesses to answer tough questions.
Dundee remembers his Stuttgart team-mate Thomas Schneider being "murdered" with running sessions for a fortnight, having returned a day late following the birth of his child.
That's a lot of murders, affairs, shrink sessions, and thickly-accented references to "gabagool" (aka capicola)!
It was in that job that she led the "murder boards," the mock sessions where Roberts and Alito prepared for their hearings, and fulfilled the Senate Judiciary Committee's voluminous document requests.
In the prior post, you read how thoroughly the president's staff prepared Ms. Kagan for the hearings by subjecting her to Murder Boards, intense practice sessions in which tough questions were fired at her repeatedly and she gave her answers to those questions repeatedly.
It's hard to tell because nothing would appear less "magical" — Volkov's title comes from Anna Akhmatova's description of the young poets, led by Joseph Brodsky, who appeared in Leningrad near the end of her life — than the string of exiles, suicides, torture sessions and murders that make up the history of 20th-century Russian culture.
He committed all of the murders, and the torture sessions that preceded them, in the basement of what was at the time his house.
From there they are meant to bring people's minds back to tragic events like 9/11 and 7/7, or an example local to where the training is taking place – such as the murder of Lee Rigby if the sessions happening in Woolwich – in order to refocus them on the task of weeding out "a threat to our communities".
From there they are meant to bring people's minds back to tragic events like 9/11 and 7/7, or an example local to where the training is taking place such as the murder of Lee Rigby if the sessions happening in Woolwich in order to refocus them on the task of weeding out "a threat to our communities".
