"We forget, sometimes, that in Europe, a person can come to an institution and assume its form," Marat Guelman, a longtime political operative, wrote on the Web site of Ekho Moskvy radio.
"The electors want to have Fugger's word and nobody else's," a Habsburg operative wrote to Charles's aunt, Margaret, urging her to tell her nephew to commit to him.
The veteran operative wrote: "Due to the fact that the Indiana primary is winner-take-all statewide and by congressional district, keeping Trump from winning a plurality in Indiana is critical to keeping him under 1,237 bound delegates before Cleveland.
Gary Tilzer, a longtime city political operative, wrote on his blog that the moderators "failed" because voters know nothing more about "the fiscal dangers ahead than they did before the debate".
Andrea Tantaros, a Fox contributor and former Republican operative, wrote a harsh Daily News blog post calling the first lady a "material girl" for going on a glitzy vacation at a luxury resort in Marbella with a cavalcade of Secret Service agents, friends, children and staff, even as "most of the country is pinching pennies and downsizing summer sojourns — or forgoing them altogether".
"Everything points to him having been coerced into not pressing charges at the ministry and being co-operative," wrote commentator Issandr el-Amrani.
One of Mr. bin Laden's own operatives wrote in a 1997 computer file seized by American investigators that "an important man with close links" to Mr. bin Laden "seems to have fallen into the enemy's hands," making him worry about the security of the "East African network".
The analysis found that 4 of Mr. Emanuel's top 6 circulators and 7 of his 20 busiest operatives wrote in home addresses for themselves outside Chicago at the bottom of the sworn affidavits that they had asked Chicago voters to sign.
"Who," asked an operative writing in the Voice, "after thirteen hours of steady application to monotonous work, can sit down and apply her mind to deep and long continued thought?
With David Remnick August 18, 2017 David Remnick talks spies and spy fiction with Jason Matthews, a former C.I.A. operative who writes about Russia — though he's never been there.
