The word "witting" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective that means "fully aware of and accepting the implications or consequences of something." Example: "The criminal was witting of the consequences of his actions when he decided to break the law."
C.I.A. officials used to tell N.S.A. students who were in the know — the agency's term for them was "witting" (or "witty") — that, while the State Department supported authoritarian dictatorships, the C.I.A. supported foreign students who were involved in democratic resistance and national liberation movements.
Just this: at the N.S.A., the staff members who knew the secret were known to one another as "witting" or "witty".
"Over time, witting staff reported on thousands of foreign students' political tendencies, personality traits, and future aspirations," Paget writes.
"As you run across people who appear to have some association with them, you frankly look at them to see if they had some involvement in the plot, whether they were witting or unwitting".
He groped for some way to mitigate it, and what he found, an instant later, was an intelligence-community term of art, a bit of tradecraft jargon having to do with the difference between the on purpose and the incidental, the guilty and the not guilty: witting and not witting, witty and not witty.
American officials have said there is no information tying Mr. Assad directly to the attack, but the intelligence report said there was a "body of information" leading spy agencies to conclude "regime officials were witting of and directed the attack on Aug. 21".
"Friendly made it rather clear that he thought the framing was witting".
Cavendish's frustration was eased by the fact that one of those team-mates, Edvald Boasson Hagen, was the eventual winner in Wevelgem, with the Norwegian out-witting Aleksandr Kuschynski of Belarus after the pair escaped with 36km remaining of a race in which the strong wind was a crucial factor.
Although he maintains a comical tone on the blog and in everyday conversation, he takes all this stuff very seriously, and at one point I realized that he was almost angry at me for my half-witting participation in the destruction of the world.
According to David Witting, a fishery biologist for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, diet determines how DDT affects various species.
Peter Witting Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics · Sarah Proudlove (Letters, September 22) need not worry about those of us who cannot afford £12.99 to let our little darlings read Madonna's parable on covetousness.
