"Just Say No: The Case Against Covert Action, " The Nation, March 21, 1987, p. 363.

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During the nineteen-seventies, it seemed as though this era of covert action were coming to an end.

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" Barack Obama is, we are told, a president who "prizes his authority to conduct covert action.

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This is the story behind Steven Spielberg's new movie, "Munich, " a story of covert action, intrigue and moral uncertainty.

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The risks and costs of maintaining a clandestine underworld are too great, and covert action cannot be justified on either pragmatic or moral grounds.

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They should be consulted prior to any covert military action, hostage rescue or military assistance to allies engaged in a military conflict.

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"We face a very real risk of seeing the democratically accountable policing of computer-assisted crime replaced by a combination of vigilante action and the covert privatisation of legitimate investigation, " said Philip Virgo, Secretary General of EURIM, the all-party e-commerce lobby group which commissioned the study.

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Frequently such action can be kept covert.

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Twombly decision in 2007 made it much harder for class-action lawyers to sue over such covert behavior.

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