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He later explained that he was using a definition employed by the Border Patrol that defines “operational control” as “the ability to detect, respond and interdict border penetrations in areas deemed as high priority.”

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2024

“Little to none, compared to the extensive cyber penetrations and human spying activities,” the former senior intelligence officer told me.

From Slate • Feb. 8, 2023

The mail program was used along with intelligence from six or seven Soviet defectors from the 1950s, and three spy penetrations of the Soviet system until 1961.

From Washington Times • Jan. 1, 2023

“They were still running penetrations of the U.S. government.”

From Seattle Times • May 19, 2018

This is, however, in practice, almost always broken by the pinnacles of the buttresses, and if not, may be varied by the tracery of its penetrations.

From The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) by Ruskin, John