targeter

Portuguese translation: identificador/localizador de terroristas

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English term or phrase:targeter
Portuguese translation:identificador/localizador de terroristas
Entered by: Marlene Curtis

12:25 Dec 4, 2012
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English to Portuguese translations [PRO]
Cinema, Film, TV, Drama / release de um filme
English term or phrase: targeter
... a young CIA officer and targeter whose job is finding terrorists.
Elena David
Brazil
Local time: 05:39
identificador de terroristas
Explanation:
Targeting Analyst — Central Intelligence Agency
www.cia.gov › ... › Career Opportunities › Analytical PositionsTargeting analysts research, analyze, write, and brief using network analysis techniques and specialized tools to identify and detail key threats to the US.



Not anymore. Jen is a “targeter,” an analyst who pores over grainy drone footage and sorts through phone intercepts and other fragments of intelligence to find the exact location of terrorists, drug traffickers, or arms dealers. Since Sept. 11, the CIA has come under heavy, and often negative, political scrutiny. But during this same period, the agency has quietly perfected the art and science of the modern manhunt by training a generation of targeters like Jen. As opposed to the area specialists who analyze a country’s government or economy, the targeters (sometimes called “targeteers”) almost always focus on one person or one group. They work in the same units as the case officers and special forces teams that act on their analysis. And in recent years, according to Jose Rodriguez, a former deputy director of operations at the CIA, the majority of targeters have been women

http://www.cartacapital.com.br/internacional/extremistas-de-...
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Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 04:39
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1identificador de terroristas
Marlene Curtis
4 -1alvo
cmbridges


  

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9 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -1
alvo


Explanation:
In this context the term "targeter" means that although is a CIA officer he is also a target.

cmbridges
Portugal
Local time: 08:39
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 4

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disagree  Marlene Curtis: The job of a CIA targeter is to locate terrorists.
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14 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
identificador de terroristas


Explanation:
Targeting Analyst — Central Intelligence Agency
www.cia.gov › ... › Career Opportunities › Analytical PositionsTargeting analysts research, analyze, write, and brief using network analysis techniques and specialized tools to identify and detail key threats to the US.



Not anymore. Jen is a “targeter,” an analyst who pores over grainy drone footage and sorts through phone intercepts and other fragments of intelligence to find the exact location of terrorists, drug traffickers, or arms dealers. Since Sept. 11, the CIA has come under heavy, and often negative, political scrutiny. But during this same period, the agency has quietly perfected the art and science of the modern manhunt by training a generation of targeters like Jen. As opposed to the area specialists who analyze a country’s government or economy, the targeters (sometimes called “targeteers”) almost always focus on one person or one group. They work in the same units as the case officers and special forces teams that act on their analysis. And in recent years, according to Jose Rodriguez, a former deputy director of operations at the CIA, the majority of targeters have been women

http://www.cartacapital.com.br/internacional/extremistas-de-...

Marlene Curtis
United States
Local time: 04:39
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
PRO pts in category: 296
Grading comment
Thank you!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Victor Santos
3 mins
  -> Também está correto.
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