Butina has a longstanding working relationship with Paul Erickson, an NRA member and conservative operative based in South Dakota.
Prosecutors have said Mr. Hasanoff scouted the exchange on behalf of a senior terrorist operative based in Yemen.
They can do the same with communications," said Robert B. Baer, a former C.I.A. operative based in the Middle East.
Asked about links between Al Qaeda and Iraq, Mr. Armitage said there were indications that the assassination in October of an American diplomat in Jordan, Laurence Foley, had been orchestrated by a Qaeda operative based in Baghdad.
It said the Palestinian men, two from Jerusalem and one from the West Bank, were recruited by an operative based in the Gaza Strip who worked for al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.
As shown in Figure 13, the weights in 'RNN' were almost meaningless and messy; meanwhile, we see that the weights in 'SD-CRBM' had a sparse structure and operative bases.
"The argument is we have to do something," explained Dave Carney, a longtime GOP operative based in New Hampshire.
Marco was utterly prepared for any variation of that question, and Jeb got talked into a terrible attack that Rubio was more than ready for," said Rick Wilson, a longtime Republican operative based in Florida.
Van Gogh's 1884 painting, Water Mill at Gennep, is one of the works Thyssen-Bornemisza purchased with the help of an offshore operative based in the Cook Islands, a South Pacific haven more than 10,000 miles from Madrid.
