One expert in securities law said he doubted AIG would ultimately decide to join the case.
The play being rehearsed at the Nasir, a five-year-old comedy, "I Saw It With My Own Eyes," contains scenes that were removed in the previous era at the insistence of Saddam Hussein's security agents, including one in which security officers insult and spit on a man.
Their role is a ticklish one in that securities law precludes them from dispensing specific financial advice.
Security experts like Brian R. Hollstein of New Canaan, Conn., a security consultant who previously worked as head of security at Xerox and as an F.B.I. agent specializing in fighting terrorism, said no one in the security business wants to leave things to chance.
The groups describe an atmosphere of growing impunity, one in which security forces act unhindered by legal constraints.
Operation Millipede also uncovered evidence suggesting companies involved in hiring the private investigators included a rail company and one in the security industry.
The big one: in July, security researchers Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek demonstrated their new hack to Wired reporter Andy Greenberg, remotely seizing control of the Jeep he was driving and cutting the accelerator on the highway.
For me, the presence of technology in the film, from cyber warfare to facial identification, is part of the picture of a possible future -- one in which security is prioritized over personal freedom and privacy.
Almost all of them earn considerably less than members of Congress, and it is fairly certain that the president consulted with absolutely no one in Homeland Security before issuing the executive order to which Republicans took such strenuous objection.
GOALS -- Autonomy for oil-rich south; legal role for Islam; legal use of militias (his party has one, integrated in security forces, that Sunnis accuse of abducting and killing Sunnis); close relations with Iran; purging government of ex-Baathists.
