Q: CHAPTER XII

THE ENEMY WITHIN

It was getting late, but the Allenwood Sports Club prolonged its sitting at the Carlyon homestead. The institution had done useful work in promoting good fellowship by means of healthful amusements, but recently its management had fallen into the hands of the younger men, and the founders contented themselves with an occasional visit to see that all was going well. Some, however, were not quite satisfied, and Mowbray entertained suspicions about the Club. He was an autocrat, but he shrank from spying, or attempting to coerce a member into betraying his comrades. Some allowance must be made for young blood; and, after all, nothing that really needed his interference could go on, he felt, without his learning about it. Nevertheless, he had a disturbing feeling that an undesirable influence was at work.

Carlyon's room was unusually well furnished, and several fine London guns occupied a rack on the matchboarded wall. The cost of one would have purchased a dozen of the Massachusetts-made weapons which the prairie farmers used. The photograph of a horseman in English hunting dress with M.F.H. appended to the autograph was equally suggestive, and it was known that Carlyon's people had sent him to Canada with money enough to make a fair start. Unfortunately, he had not realized that success in farming demands care and strenuous work.

He sat with a flushed, excited face at a rosewood table, upon which the cigar ends, bottles, and glasses scarcely left room for the cards he was eagerly scanning. Gerald Mowbray leaned back in his chair, watching him with a smile. Emslie, the third man, wore a disturbed frown; opposite him, Markham sat with a heavy, vacant air.

1. Mowbray
2. because he had a disturbing feeling
3. because management had fallen into the hands of the younger men
4. no
5. unusually well
6. London
7. yes
8. rosewood
9. that success in farming demands care and strenuous work
10. cigar ends
11. bottles
12. four

Numbered questions:
1. Who was suspicions about the sport club?
2. Why was he suspicious?
3. What gave him that feeling?
4. Was Carlyon's room bare?
5. How was it furnished?
6. Where were the guns from?
7. Where they expensive?
8. What was the table made of?
9. What did Carlyon not understand?
10. What was one the rosewood table?
11. What else?
12. How many people were sitting there?

Q: Unlike the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which is a domestic security service, CIA has no law enforcement function and is mainly focused on overseas intelligence gathering, with only limited domestic collection. Though it is not the only U.S. government agency specializing in HUMINT, CIA serves as the national manager for coordination and deconfliction of HUMINT activities across the entire intelligence community. Moreover, CIA is the only agency authorized by law to carry out and oversee covert action on behalf of the President, unless the President determines that another agency is better suited for carrying out such action. It can, for example, exert foreign political influence through its tactical divisions, such as the Special Activities Division.

The Executive Office also supports the U.S. military by providing it with information it gathers, receiving information from military intelligence organizations, and cooperating on field activities. The Executive Director is in charge of the day to day operation of the CIA, and each branch of the service has its own Director. The Associate Director of military affairs, a senior military officer, manages the relationship between the CIA and the Unified Combatant Commands, who produce regional/operational intelligence and consume national intelligence.

1. the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI
2. The CIA
3. mainly focused on overseas
4. ntelligence gathering
5. to carry out and oversee covert action on behalf of the President
6. Yes, if the President determines that another agency is better suited
7. CIA
8. The Executive Director
9. The Associate Director of military affairs
10. exert foreign political influence through its tactical divisions

Numbered questions:
1. What is an example of a domestic security service?
2. What agency does not have any law enforcement?
3. Where do they mostly work?
4. What do they do there?
5. What are they the only group allowed to do?
6. Can the leader have another group do it?
7. What special group can exert foreign political inluence?
8. Who is taking care of the day to day of the CIA?
9. Who manages the relations between the CIA and others?
10. What can they do to foreign politics?

Q: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The U.S. Senate was called to order for 11 seconds on Wednesday as the last political scuffle of the year between the White House and the Democratic-led Congress played out.

Democratic senators will hold short "pro forma" sessions over the holiday break to prevent recess appointments.

Nearly all the senators left the Capitol for the Christmas holiday last week, but Democrats are keeping the Senate in session to block President Bush from making any recess appointments -- a constitutional mechanism that allows the president, during congressional recesses, to fill top government posts for up to one year without Senate confirmation.

Sen. Jim Webb, D-Virginia, opened and then immediately gaveled the Senate session to a close. He spent 57 seconds in the chamber.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, announced December 19 that he would keep the Senate open with a series of "pro forma" sessions through mid-January.

Talks had just broken down with the White House on a deal that would have allowed the president to make dozens of those appointments if he agreed not to appoint one controversial official, Steven Bradbury, as the permanent head of the influential Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department.

Bush declined to accept the Democrats' offer, and Reid refused to approve Bradbury because of concerns about his involvement in crafting legal opinions for the administration on interrogation techniques of terrorism suspects.

Similar sessions were conducted over the Thanksgiving recess.

Webb also did the duty Friday, but he won't be the only senator tasked with presiding over the shortened sessions. Other Democrats -- including Sens. Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Byron Dorgan of North Dakota, Jack Reed of Rhode Island, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Ben Cardin of Maryland and Chuck Schumer of New York -- will share the duty. E-mail to a friend

1. to block President Bush from making any recess appointments
2. a constitutional mechanism
3. that allows the president, during congressional recesses, to fill top government posts
4. Bradbury
5. permanent head of the influential Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department
6. Six
7. Virginia
8. 57 seconds
9. pro forma
10. Senate Majority Leader
11. Nevada
12. Thanksgiving
13. No
14. December 19
15. through mid-January
16. Friday
17. Chuck Schumer
18. Louisiana
19. not appoint one controversial official
20. No

Numbered questions:
1. why are democrats keeping the Seante in session?
2. what are they?
3. to do what?
4. who did Reid refuse to approve?
5. what job did Bush want him to have?
6. how many senators were planning to help Webb?
7. which state does Webb represent
8. how long was his session?
9. what are these sessions called?
10. what job does Reid have?
11. where is he based?
12. what holiday were they breaking for?
13. were all senators still in the Capitol?
14. when did Reid announce the sessions?
15. until when?
16. Webb had taken the wednesday session, what other one was he planning?
17. which New York Senator was going to help?
18. Where is Mary Landrieu from?
19. what did the democrats want Bush to do?
20. did Bush agree?