"Smartest Machine on Earth" is part of an all-"Nova" night on PBS dedicated to the theme of intelligence.
Precisely because of its power and the subtlety of its overall theme -- intelligence work is painstaking and slow and often confusing, and dedicated civil servants must sometimes make impossible choices -- Zero Dark Thirty contributes to an un-American message about torture, guised in the uniform of steely eyed, if sometimes ambiguous, heroism.
Guardian journalist Susie Steiner suggested that his appearance in Bloody Sunday was an attempt to resolve the expression of his "Irishness" on screen: "Where he has taken part in a sectarian theme, his intelligence as an actor has often been masked by an excessive, cartoon-style comedy.
One of his great themes was intelligence and, at the end of his life, eroticism.
According to the documents, the certificate authorises GCHQ to search for material under a number of themes, including: intelligence on the political intentions of foreign governments; military postures of foreign countries; terrorism, international drug trafficking and fraud.
According to documents, the certificate allows GCHQ to search for material under a number of themes, including intelligence on the political intentions of foreign governments; military postures of foreign countries; terrorism, international drug trafficking and fraud.
The call to convert is no rhetorical flourish; Islamic jurisprudence requires that non-believers be given a chance before they are attacked.These are mostly familiar themes, though intelligence analysts will search the sermon (and a second internet message) for clues about his intentions, whereabouts (thought to be Pakistan's border region) and state of health.
Despite some over-exuberance in the smaller roles, Andy Arnold's production for the Arches Theatre Company tackles these themes with intelligence, making the case that language is not just a tool for communication but a means for a society to define itself.
But although Plante handles this theme with subtle intelligence, he does so by subordinating characters to ideas.
The inherent difficulty of monitoring officers in the field is an abiding theme in the intelligence business, but sending up tainted reports -- treating bad agents like good ones when you knew better -- that was new.
