"Just Say No: The Case Against Covert Action, " The Nation, March 21, 1987, p. 363.
They play dirty, and the CIA can play dirty too, often by using covert action.
Covert action and spies should be banned and the CIA's Clandestine Services Branch disbanded.
During the nineteen-seventies, it seemed as though this era of covert action were coming to an end.
" Barack Obama is, we are told, a president who "prizes his authority to conduct covert action.
This is the story behind Steven Spielberg's new movie, "Munich, " a story of covert action, intrigue and moral uncertainty.
The tactics are also practiced by covert action operators around the world, when their misdeeds are uncovered: Admit nothing.
These steps need to be complemented by political warfare initiatives, information operations, expanded intelligence activity and, as appropriate, covert action.
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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The public, accustomed in recent years to stories of botched anti Saddam coups, had learned that CIA covert action works only in the movies.
The CPR in its 16-page "Materials List, " published in December 1978, under "Sources of Information" listed Agee's Covert Action Information Bulletin as one valuable source.
Organizing Notes (ON), a periodical published by CPR routinely included in its "Update" section a summary of the contents of Agee's current issues of the Covert Action Information Bulletin (CAIB, the successor to CounterSpy Magazine).
Gorbachev's campaign of overt diplomatic flexibility and apparent concessions has gone hand in hand with persistent Soviet secret warfare tactics including covert action, aid to proxies, disinformation, and espionage to achieve aggressive Soviet foreign policy aims.
Since the Defense Department and even the CIA were also kept in the dark, the Lake-brokered "no instructions" decision amounted to a covert action, taken with as little regard for its pernicious long-term implications as for the "need-to-know" of other parts of the U.S. government.
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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.
Twombly decision in 2007 made it much harder for class-action lawyers to sue over such covert behavior.
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The interesting questions for politicians is whether criminal action should be pursued against those producing the covert recordings or making their contents public.
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The prudence of this action is even more evident today in light of revelations of covert Iranian and North Korean nuclear activity that have come to light since last Fall.
In covert drug operations, too, the Coast Guard is sometimes little more than a front for action by the navy.
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