"Plausible deniability" is when someone in a position of power can reasonably deny any knowledge or involvement in a questionable or controversial action, even if they may actually have knowledge or involvement. It is a way to protect themselves from being held accountable or blamed for those actions.
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Racy situations go nowhere and the boozing and sexual laxity of films just a year earlier is more suggested than shown: a case
of plausible deniability for the studio, which seems to have simply chopped out pieces of the script to stay within the bounds of decency (a subplot involving the school nurse and some sinister threat she poses just evaporates).
So, in summary, alongside a highly deceptive graph used throughout the document and in worldwide publicity a single paragraph in TAR refered to hand - waving in the literature, without making clear the problem to readers but providing the authors
plausible deniability in the unlikely event someone difficult like McIntyre should come along.
It is conceivable that some technology breakthrough would enable the subs to be secretly destroyed,
with plausible deniability at least.
A «Hidden» volume only helps if you're forced to disclose your password to someone and want to
maintain plausible deniability about the existence of any other files.
As a result, we now have even less room for
plausible deniability about a problem we are lately frequently confronting: a failure to anticipate how technology meant to work on an individual level might be repurposed or exploited when scaled up to apply to millions.
Daniel in Texas Some Christians believe that God does not actively control everything in nature, but intervenes only occasionally, thus making it possible for him to control the weather directly when it suits him, as in the case of Noah, and create miracles like appearing on toast, but
allowing plausible deniability for all natural disasters that cause believers angst.
As for the potential blowback from being accused of doing so by the US, well Putin only
needs plausible deniability and will spin such accusations for his own good domestically.
Had he been shot in the fight we might have photos but execution style no photos plausible deniability
But their current strategy, essentially aiming for some measure of
plausible deniability whilst simultaneously haphazardly pointing fingers at everyone and anyone, is just dodgy politics 101.
Some of the dialogue concerning «statecraft» feels like it's come out of a John le Carré novel, and the idea of secrets embedded in black ops embedded in
plausible deniability seems disturbingly realistic.
The resulting bits of quasi-proclamation and pseudo-communication are both sinister and amusing by turns, calling to mind the gentle snark of Ed Ruscha's late - 1970s word pastels: «drug allergy fake» loiters just far enough from «radical wonton» to
establish plausible deniability.
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«It's been known» allows the reader to draw his or her own inference as to by whom it has been known, while leaving Mann with
plausible deniability if the consequences of any particular inference do not suit him.
«We'll add BIP 39 passphrase support in a future update, mostly for privacy or
plausible deniability reasons — it'll be possible to enter it directly on device or to link it to a specific PIN to work with all services that might not be aware of it,» he said.
He also claimed that an executive at Facebook advised him against looking too much into how the data was being used by these firms, effectively
saying plausible deniability was the best solution.
It all leads to the question: Was Trump broadly aware of the Daniels situation but deliberately kept in the dark about the payment to
retain plausible deniability?
That allows
for plausible deniability, which is good enough for the coaches, administrators, conference officials, and network executives.
All pointing to the US and other allies preparing to create «
plausible deniability,» that is, to let Netanyahu himself launch some kind of operation against Tehran.
Using
the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.
And it seems at least theoretically possible there was some kind of a fund to deal with these issues without telling Trump — thereby maintaining Trump's
plausible deniability.
It's certainly possible that Cohen decided to keep Trump out of the loop in the later case, in order for Trump to retain
his plausible deniability during the presidential campaign.
Or as I like to call him, Saint Ronnie of Gipper, patron of afternoon naps and
plausible deniability.