Sentences with phrase «own covert operations»

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.

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

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.

Satan loves covert operations.

• Military activities against Nicaragua have included covert operations carried out through groups such as the National Security Council, the CIA, and other «secret teams» of mercenaries, arms merchants, and drug - runners.

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.

The means used to carry out covert operations not only violated «hitherto accepted norms of human conduct,» they oftentimes circumvented the law, the will of Congress, and the consciences and political wishes of the U.S. public.

The history of covert operations prior to the Iran - contra scandal includes attempts to assassinate foreign leaders, successful ousters of democratic governments, cooperation with mafia - type figures and efforts to deceive the U.S. people and Congress.

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

The documents reveal how the National Security Agency leaked intelligence information, directed covert operations within Nicaragua to influence U.S. public opinion, and developed other elaborate programs for the diplomacy office to help the Reagan administration persuade Congress to renew contra aid.

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.

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

Tell that to Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda leadership taken out by drones, the three Somali pirates and countless other targets of 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.

By talking with your child about online safety on a regular basis, it becomes more of a teamwork atmosphere and less like covert operation.

Orland Park Police report the covert operation resulted in 12 felony and 10 misdemeanor charges, and recovered stolen property valued at $ 18,970.

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 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).

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.

They can not see and neither can they fathom or comprehend the evil machinations of the hidden hand or the dark and sinister world of covert operations and black ops.

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!»

(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.

AgriLife Research scientists in Lubbock began searching the fields and plants for answers to help farmers cope, while another team in College Station took a deep look at the bacterium and cotton interaction at the cellular level and discovered its covert operations.

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

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.

A deliberate, cerebral, grim and utterly absorbing film that makes covert operations appear as unsexy as the Bourne films made them seem fast - paced and thrilling.

Following a secret debrief from Saul, a stunned Estes authorizes a covert operation to investigate intel recovered in Beirut - but not without putting his own trusted operative in charge of the operation.

Homeland, Season 2, Episode 4: Estes authorizes a covert operation to investigate intel found in Beirut.

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.

Zero Dark Thirty also follows covert operations in the fight against terrorism.

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.

But Bishop's past comes back to haunt him when government agents blackmail the «sneakers» into carrying out a covert operation:...

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

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.

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.

Adapted from the book of the same name, this limited series will chart the rise of Osama Bin Laden and Al - Qaeda in the 1990s, as well as the rivalry between the CIA and FBI which plighted America's covert operations.

Most of the action scenes, including an early covert operation aboard a tanker and a messy brawl in a crowded elevator, have been staged with a clarity uncommon to this studio.

The climax takes place on the grounds of a rundown play - land inspired by the stories of the Brothers Grimm (where the truth of her origin is revealed), and her primary hunter is a CIA agent named Marissa (Cate Blanchett), who serves as both the wicked stepmother (There's little doubt that had things gone her way, Hanna would be working alongside her in covert operations) and the big, bad wolf (She appears, at one key moment, out of the maw of her archetypical inspiration).

«ARGO» Wednesday, May 3rd at 7:00 p.m. Based on true events, this dramatic 2012 thriller and Academy Award «Best Picture» winner chronicles the life - or - death covert operation to rescue six Americans, which unfolded behind the scenes of the Iran hostage crisis — the truth of which was unknown by the public for decades.

Follow American Made Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AmericanMade2017/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ammademovie Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/americanmade/ — In Universal Pictures» American Made, Tom Cruise reunites with his Edge of Tomorrow director, Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith), in this international escapade based on the outrageous (and real) exploits of a hustler and pilot unexpectedly recruited by the CIA to run one of the biggest covert operations in U.S. history.