The degree to which Gaza, unlike the West Bank, is opaque to Israeli intelligence has profound implications for future operations there.
But the very arrogance and presumption defining this action by the intelligence community -- increasingly opaque and beyond the control of the State Department -- help make sense of any number of otherwise bewildering features of U.S. foreign policy.
Perhaps the court is transparent to him and the intelligence agencies, but it is utterly opaque to the public.
Meanwhile, the program called Prism, which aims to collect digital intelligence about foreign targets, remains frustratingly opaque.
Meanwhile the laws surrounding the sharing and use of intelligence by allied governments are entirely opaque.
They're written to be opaque, and we're living through an unprecedented time of unintended intelligence industry transparency.
Pressed about the American intelligence drone in Iran, Mr. Panetta engaged in a polite but opaque public exchange with Mr. Karzai over the security value of intelligence gathering missions, weighed against sensitivities over national sovereignty.
The opaque comment had Conway's allies scrambling, and she was retrieved from her intelligence training.
American intelligence agents face the much more formidable task of penetrating the opaque societies of Afghanistan and northern Pakistan, where access frequently comes with blood ties.
Speaking on his LBC 97.3 radio show, Clegg said he strongly supported the need for secrecy by the intelligence agencies but there needed to be proper accountability as current regulation was quite opaque.
There are solemn, scowling meetings between stone-faced intelligence suits (Edward Norton, Stacy Keach, Scott Glenn), there are mysterious nosebleed incidents in Karachi and Seoul, there's lots of opaque talk: people babble about Treadstone, Larx and Emerald Lake and say such things as "State two plus 30 to splash" and more technical stuff besides.
