23 April 2016

Conscientious:  Controlled by or done according to one's inner sense of what is right; principled

• Censor or obscure (part of a text) for legal or security purposes.

Quid pro quo: A favor or advantage granted in return for something. 

• And the right time 
• And the right time would have been when you can get the necessary quid pro quo – if you have someone like Osama bin Laden, you are not going to simply hand him over to the United States. (Al Jazeera)

Polygraph: A machine designed 

• Walk-ins are assumed by the CIA to be unreliable, and the response from the agency’s headquarters was to fly in a polygraph team.

Redact:

• The Saudis themselves have previously called for the release for the redacted pages. (Nytimes)
• Wholesome: Conducive to moral or general well-being; salutary; beneficial
• Whenever a wholesome thought arises acknowledge it. (Thay)
• Ipso facto: By the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed
• When one says that a statement was recorded under "duress" then it also means ipso facto that the contents of the statement will be false. (Moeed Pirzada)