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Gisting, or data reduction, required analyzing complex reports and distilling their essence or ‘gist’ into concise, single-page briefs.
His mantra: ‘Find the truth. Act on it.’
Few outsiders knew that during times of peace, the eagle faced left – toward the olive branch. But in times of war, the eagle mysteriously faced right – toward the arrows.
THE U.S. DELTA Force is the sole fighting squad whose actions are granted complete presidential immunity from the law. Presidential Decision Directive 25 (PDD 25) grants Delta Force soldiers ‘freedom from all legal accountability,’ including exception from the 1876 Posse Comitatus Act, a statute imposing criminal penalties for anyone using the military for personal gain, domestic law enforcement, or unsanctioned covert operations.
NRO satellites had used similar technology to search for subsurface density variants in Eastern Europe and locate mass burial sites,
‘Over ten miles per second – thirty-six thousand miles per hour! At one hundred and thirty-five kilometers above the earth’s surface, the meteorite begins to encounter friction with the atmosphere.’
earth’s ‘bugs’ outnumbered all of the other animals combined. They made up 95 percent of all the planet’s species and an astounding 40 percent of the planet’s biomass.
This technique, invented by the Russian mafia, was called the byelaya smert – white death. This victim would suffocate long before the snow in her throat melted. Once dead, however, her body would stay warm long enough to dissolve the blockage.
Gabrielle’s plan for dealing with Harper was something Sexton called ‘overshooting’ – an interrogation technique invented by the early Roman authorities to coax confessions from criminals they suspected were lying. The method was deceptively simple: Assert the information you want confessed. Then allege something far worse. The object was to give the opponent a chance to choose the lesser of two evils – in this case, the truth.
