One Republican operative who advises a tech company with a CEO in the meeting (the operative was not authorized to speak on the record) told VICE News that "every CEO here is feeling like there's an opportunity to inform the president-elect's views on the issues at stake".
On Thursday, two Army generals investigating the abuses told Congress they had not been able to determine who had authorized C.I.A. operatives' practices at the prison and elsewhere in Iraq, including the use of the military facility by the agency to hide at least two dozen detainees from the Red Cross.
But they have authorized their campaign operatives to take a far less polite approach.
By law, only intelligence operatives, not the military, are authorized to carry out covert actions, and the government is authorized to deny publicly any knowledge of these activities.
Later he received explosives training from the same operatives, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
In 2009, President Obama declared that while waterboarding was torture and illegal, he would not pursue U.S operatives or officials who performed it or authorized its use.
Partial weight bearing was authorized at the third post-operative week.
Then, free range of motion was allowed and a progressive partial weight bearing was authorized in the third post-operative week.
If Mr. Khashoggi was killed or abducted by Saudi operatives, Prince Mohammed would have had to have authorized the plan, experts on the kingdom's internal workings say.
In Washington, officials were watching with growing alarm the gathering of Qaeda operatives in the tribal areas, and George J. Tenet, the C.I.A. director, authorized officers in the agency's Islamabad station to push Pakistani officials to allow armed drones.
"It's got to be a more controlled setting when he speaks publicly," said one Republican political operative familiar with Kirk and the NRSC's strategy who was not authorized to speak publicly.
