Admiral Koris: Our people have, during difficult periods, purchased pre-owned vessels from other cultures!

It's intelligence in real time, but you have to know where you're looking and what you're after. Government sources told The Washington Post that the program had had little discernible impact on the government's ability to prevent terrorist [attacks].

[…] there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Yule, and such high seasons […]

Rods are used in low light conditions (scotic vision) hence the black and white appearance of night vision.