Make no mistake: the operative word in the title is "summer".
We gave the operative definition for a "mistake" as any defect during the entire process, that influenced in any way the quality of the laboratory service.
In a news conference earlier in the day, the Interior Ministry's spokesman, Zemary Bashary, acknowledged that the police and intelligence operatives had made mistakes.
But he told the judge he had made "a mistake" helping the operative.
Speaking of unfortunate assumptions, a friend of mine went to Comet Ping Pong on Connecticut Avenue the other evening for pizza as a show of solidarity against fake news and fascist terrorism, and was promptly mistaken for Trump operative Corey Lewandowski.
But political scientists and political operatives broadly agree that voters typically mistake the executive branch for "the government," which is actually a three-headed monster (the President, House, and Senate) that is a lot better at checking than balancing.
When Maher Arar, a telecommunications engineer with Canadian citizenship, was mistaken for an al Qaeda operative while in transit at JFK Airport en route to Canada he was whisked off to Syria and detained for over a year and tortured.
"It is beyond belief that three years went by and this was some sort of clerical mistake," said Charlie Baker, a Democratic political operative who worked on the residency case against Romney.
When I told his associate I felt terrible for possibly mistaking a humanitarian for an ISIS operative, he said, "No, no, no, it's fine.
It turned out that Masri's abductors — the Central Intelligence Agency — had apparently mistaken him for an alleged Al Qaeda operative with a similar name.
