The Guardian in June revealed GCHQ had engaged in extensive surveillance efforts against G20 delegates in 2009, including in order to secure advantages in trade talks and bilaterals.
Documents that were supposedly published in 2009 were revealed to have been published in 2015 then backdated; a private key linked with the name Satoshi Nakamoto was described as being created in 2008, but using a version of the encryption software only released in 2014; and Wright had, one email suggested, been name-dropping Nakamoto to secure advantages in tax cases and political lobbying.
And more questions would be raised by the documentation that led to the latest allegations: how could Wright have stayed secret for so long if he was willing to bandy Nakamoto's name around to secure advantages in tax cases and political lobbying, as one email suggests?
Fans of HBO's Oz will recall that Ryan O'Reilly, the Machiavellian character played by Dean Winters the guy in all those AllState insurance TV spots—had sex with at least one guard to secure advantages inside.
The overriding concern to secure advantage over opponents displayed by Clinton's team in the document could be embarrassing as she considers mounting a second presidential campaign in 2016.
Mr. Byers, the former transportation minister, told the interviewer that he was like a "cab for hire" and charged $7,500 a day for using his contacts to secure advantage for companies.
The mimic adopts certain of the recognition marks of its model in order to secure advantage over the model itself or over a third species that interacts with the model.
In 1838 he negotiated the Ponsonby Treaty with Turkey, which secured important advantages for British trade in the Ottoman Empire.
Yet the authoritarian and arbitrary Petrucci stopped the sale of public offices, secured economic advantages for the city, reformed the monetary system, and protected arts and letters.
Before the year's end he had secured greater advantages for his leader: a treaty had ended the dangerous armed confrontation with Antony at Brundisium (modern Brindisi), and Antony had married Octavia, Octavian's sister.
