Yet lambasting rival security factions for their incompetence and cronyism, while compacting bigger issues about privacy and democracy, A Good American is in danger of coming across like an NSA internal review.
George Tenet, the CIA's boss, is to be dispatched to the region to try to shake the authority's dozen or so security factions into one centralised force, and so revive the Oslo-dictated co-operation between Israeli and Palestinian security.But it will be a very long time before Israelis trust Palestinian policemen to protect them.
Many Chinese rights defenders work diligently within that reality, and some believe unrestrained activism like Gao's undermines their cause, weakening reform-minded bureaucrats within the government, strengthening the hard-line security factions.
Algeria's military and security factions are wary of government change due to the country's bloody history of civil war and Algerians popular backing of the civilian control introduced by Bouteflika.
Stephen Vladeck, an American University law professor, said the middle ground sought by the administration has put both the civil libertarian and national security conservative factions in a bind.
That was a victory for the security-services faction, or siloviki though Mr Putin tempered it by replacing Mr Voloshin with Dmitry Medvedev, his deputy, seen as a neutral "reformist".
With the failure of the poorly organised coup, and having secured authority from the president to restore order and security, Suharto's faction was firmly in control of the army by 2 October (he was officially appointed army commander on 14 October).
Officials said Mr. Tenet had several ideas, including the need for a unified security operation without factions that competed among themselves and tolerated or fomented terrorism.
As for the Iraqi police, they resembled less a neutral security force than a faction in the city's conflicts.
Among the passengers were former rebels who have joined the Darfur Transitional Authority, an government body responsible for carrying out a peace agreement reached in 2006 between the government and a rebel faction, a security official at the Nyala airport said.
