The advisers -- Chris Lehane, Mr. Gore's former campaign spokesman, and Mark Fabiani, a senior damage-control expert for Mr. Gore and former President Bill Clinton -- are collecting a total of $30,000 a month for six months, to be paid with state money.
They like to rally around a top dog as early as possible (for all the McCain mania in 2000, the insurgency was quickly put down, though George Bush senior was damaged by friendly fire in 1992).
Despite the loss of civilian life and political damage, senior officers who track the raids say that no shots are fired about 80 percent of the time, as American, allied and Afghan commando units are able to surprise their targets, usually under cover of night.
The intelligence community emerges from the report with its reputation and some of its most senior staff badly damaged.
Some senior figures were damaged financially, but I hadn't been there long enough to be one of them.
In his indictment request, he said killing Calipari, a senior official, had damaged Italy's interests abroad and was a "political crime".A judge must now decide whether to order a trial.
"The overriding concern is to avoid collateral damage," another senior United States official said.
"It didn't do us any real damage," one senior campaign official said.
-- (S/Rel Pak) Strikes in the FATA are succeeding in eliminating the enemy senior leadership and collateral damage has been minimal.
But Strauss was more concerned with defending the legacy of the team he captained, with Flower as coach and Pietersen a senior player – and the damage that the ugly rows surrounding the book could do to England teams of the future.
Senior Nazis downplayed the damage after the war.
