Sentences with phrase «covert operations is»

But like most affairs, your covert operation is probably more public than you realize.

The secrecy and deception required by covert operations are incompatible with our democracy.

Secrecy and covert operations are well suited to a deceptive war of images that is designed to hide real policy goals and the means that are utilized to achieve them.

These complex covert operations are commonly referred to in intelligence circles as «black ops», «extreme measures» and «wet work» and they are always done in the utmost secrecy and with the full knowledge and sometimes assitance and logistical support of either one or two other friendly and trusted foreign intelligence agencies.

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As Kessler correctly points out, the diplomatic mission in Benghazi was basically a covert CIA operation — a fact that Congressional investigators have had to dance around as they proceed with their Benghazi witch - hunt.

The order includes 12 intelligence officers from Russia's mission to the United Nations who were using their roles as «covers» to conduct covert operations, U.S. officials said.

Israel's top - secret Mossad spy agency has long been shrouded in mystery and mythology, behind what are believed to be some of the most daring covert operations of the past century.

It is commonly realized that political agreement about covert operations has disintegrated.

• The central element in the Church plan is a powerful, well - informed Senate oversight committee with rotating membership, budgetary authority, legislative powers, and the right to receive advance notice of all «significant» covert operations.

While former CIA Director William Colby was publicly taking the line that the President has constitutional power to conduct covert operations, Colby himself had approved an internal CIA study which found that, prior to the 1974 Foreign Assistance Act, there were no legal or constitutional grounds for covert action without the advance approval of Congress.

I believe CIA imported cocaine into the US to pay for covert operations in South America, as that is a well known fact.

Democratic freedoms are, or soon could be, trampled on by the misuse of elections, disinformation campaigns, the concentration of economic power, and the abuse of presidential powers cloaked in the secrecy of covert operations.

There is another serious attack against democracy that is central to low - intensity - conflict strategy: a reliance upon secrecy and illegal covert operations.

in which Jean Claude Van Damme plays himself as Jean Claude Van Johnson who is an over-the-hill super agent who used the JCVD persona as a cover for his covert operations in the 80's and 90's.

The historical evidence I'm asking for may include cases of covert operations that had been blamed on another party, false flag operations, etc..

The American public got to know the extent of Presidents Nixon and Reagan's covert operations both domestic and international only after an independent investigator was appointed — Watergate and Iran - Contra scandals.

The Presidency has the duty to make Oke list which covert security operations his agency has undertaken within and outside the Nigerian territory since the fund was made available to the NIA.

The only reason that the scam has survived all these years is because it is an undercover paid Government of Ghana agent doing the covert operations the police, security and intelligence agencies can not do under the law, particular surveillance without a warrant from a High Court — See Sections 29, 30 and 31 of the Security and Intelligence Agencies Act, 1992 (Act 526).

I insist that it is unconstitutional for this Government to use any covert agent for operations against citizens to hide its Gargantuan political corruption like Nerquaye - Tetteh's golden handshake of GH 400,000 when it knows that the Constitution and the laws of Ghana proscribes it from using the executive powers of policing, intelligence and security entrusted to it by the Constitution except in compliance with the existing law.

Once he admits to being a covert unlawful Government agent, I have discharged my burden that he has always been one and the onus does not lie on me to prove that in the particular case of the judicial corruption undercover operations he was not acting as an agent for the Government in spite of foot notes 16 and 17 of my article on judicial and political corruption.

Sixteenth is the covert support that Buhari himself and key players in his political party and administration have given Boko Haram over the last 6 years by funding their operations, openly identifying with some of their core values and ideals and seeking to protect them from the proscription.

With all the spying going on around the state Capitol these days, you could be forgiven for mistaking the Legislature for some kind of covert undercover operation.

Under growing pressure from lawmakers and the public to reveal more about the spread of covert Russian propaganda on Facebook, the company said it's turning over more than 3,000 Russia - linked ads to congressional committees investigating the Kremlin's influence operation during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Reports say that the NIA, which is Nigeria's foreign intelligence service, explained that the money, which was found on the seventh floor of the building, was approved by former President Goodluck Jonathan for covert operations and security projects covering a period of years.

Ignoring covert operations (as requested), an argument can be made for the Vietnam War, as the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution authorized the President to assist «any member or protocol state of the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty», which was then used by Johnson to say «hey look, we need to defend South Vietnam now!»

«It was not the transposition of a number or a decimal point,» said County Comptroller John Kennedy, but rather «a willful, intentional effort on the part of the operator to deceive and to be covert in their operations.»

(CNN)- Former CIA covert operations officer Valerie Plame Wilson, whose identity was revealed during a 2003 scandal regarding intelligence - gathering prior to the Iraq war, took a swipe Wednesday at a group backing GOP Senate candidate Liz Cheney.

These interests are either overt or covert and materialise during classified bilateral or multilateral talks or what in the intelligence and security environment you describe as sinister operations of foreign agents in diplomatic missions.

Believers of one conspiracy theory claim that the persistent condensation trails left behind aircraft in the sky — so - called «chemtrails» — are evidence of a covert large - scale spraying operation with sinister intent.

Quantum cryptography «is moving out of the physics lab,» he says, and coming closer to covert operations.

The latest underwear bomb found through the covert CIA operation is thought to be the work of Ibrahim Hassan al Asiri, who designed the original device.

«Drones are evidently becoming important to CIA covert paramilitary operations,» says John Pike, at the US military think - tank Global Security.

Synopsis: Based on real events the dramatic thriller Argo chronicles the life - or - death covert operation to rescue six Americans which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis focusing on the little - known role that the CIA and Hollywood played - information that was not declassified until many years after the event.

Dutch (Schwarzenegger) discovers that there's been a cover up, and the real mission is to destroy evidence of a failed covert operation.

The Israeli government's policy is never to negotiate with terrorists, and while Rabin agonizes over the potential disaster unfolding, Peres quietly maneuvers to facilitate Operation Thunderbolt, as the covert rescue mission was known.

Mention was made of Senator John Waltzer (D, North Carolina), the chair of the Armed Services Committee hearings, who was against the CIA's shadow organizations (he considered them «irrelevant at best or unconstitutional at worst») and covert intelligence operations.

We fast forward thirty years and a very senior Rachel (Helen Mirren) is being lauded in a new book about an Eastern Berlin covert operation and the killing of the Nazi war criminal Dieter Vogel (Jesper Christensen).

We still know little about her apart from her ability to turn invisible, something which is bound to come in handy during covert operations.

Happily, these are the exact attributes required by the covert operations at 21, Jump Street, where Ice Cube's Captain Dickson rules with foul - mouthed glee.

Thankfully, there's a much more thrilling (and longer) covert operation later when they reveal a shark fin processing plant.

The movie then jumps one year later and Ben Grimm is now a puppet of the military going on covert special mission operations.

Archer is an animated comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and its employees, who use every covert operation and global crisis as another excuse to undermine, sabotage, and betray each other for personal gain.

I had a very political day and a half when I caught in succession Frieda Mock's «Anita: Speaking Truth to Power,» about Anita Hill; «The World According to Dick Cheney,» directed by R.J. Cutler and Greg Finton; Alex Gibney's marvelous «We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks»; and Richard Rowley's eye - opening «Dirty Wars,» which follows reporter / whistle - blower Jeremy Scahill's investigations into covert military operations conducted by the United States in more than 70 countries, including some that are supposed American allies.

While the movie doesn't come close to touching the very best of the genre (Babe), it was charming and clever at times, and it elicited genuine laughs as it followed the covert operations of evil cats and human - loving dogs carried out behind the backs, and underneath the noses, of the unsuspecting human characters.

Then, tragedy struck and Rapp was recruited into the nation's most elite covert operations program.

Friday, July 25 «Archer» Fox Booth Signing Press Room: 3:30 p.m. — 4:30 p.m. Panel: 5 p.m. — 6 p.m.: Screening and Q&A: «Archer» is an animated comedy that revolves around the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS) and its employees who use every covert operation and global crisis as another excuse to undermine, sabotage and betray each other for personal gain.

The Losers, which is based on a graphic novel of the same name, was an all out action movie about a special - forces unit consisting of Clay (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), Jensen (Chris Evans), Roque (Idris Elba), Pooch (Columbus Short), and Cougar (Oscar Jaenada) who reluctantly join forces with a mysterious woman named Aisha (Zoe Saldana) to stop a rogue CIA agent named Max (Jason Patric) who burned Clay's team during a covert military operation in Bolivia.

DVD Review by Kam Williams Headline: DVD Drama Features Don Cheadle as Possible Manchurian Muslim Mole This international thriller revolves around the 007 - like exploits of Samir Horn (Don Cheadle), a U.S. Special Forces Agent serving overseas in a covert, counterespionage operation in Yemen where he's attempting to imbed himself in a cell of Arab religious fanatics.

Apparently, it was through his funding of a covert CIA operation in response to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan that the mujahedeen managed to defend themselves successfully while simultaneously bankrupting the U.S.S.R..