Mr Justice Fulford said complaints made against the staff were "no more than a smokescreen".
"This is the FAA covering its tail through a giant media smokescreen, " he says.
Kerkorian is "legitimately impressed with Ford's turnaround plan" but the purchase offer "is a smokescreen, " Healy said.
He says he wants certain questions answered first, but they amount to a technical smokescreen for policy-driven inaction.
There is also the alleged use of white phosphorous shells: permitted as a smokescreen, but not over civilian areas.
Any attempt to position this solely as a technology issue is a smokescreen.
Even if this line of defence was more than just a smokescreen, the ties to Mr Rajaratnam are inevitably finite.
Any attempt by the Syrian regime or its friends to cast doubt on that fact is nothing more than a smokescreen.
Meanwhile, the government is furious at speculation that powerful people might have used the coup as a smokescreen to settle scores.
He says he would not abandon Iraq, but talks of pulling troops out which looks like a muddle or a smokescreen for retreat.
"A great jury, " he said, "that will see through what I call the government smokescreen ... of lying government witnesses" yet to testify.
But the opposition parties said that attempts to blame school selection policies and the "foundation" status of three schools had been a smokescreen.
The Israelis retort that white phosphorus is legally used by many armies as a smokescreen provided it is not fired over densely populated areas.
Other critics say the event is a smokescreen for religious leaders seeking to consolidate control over their congregations by limiting access to outside information.
Syria is using the smokescreen of near weekly protestations of interest in negotiating with Israel to divert attention away from its clear preparations for war.
Since that rebate is fixed for another four years, the British did not seem unduly alarmed at what some observers saw as a negotiating smokescreen.
In fact, Mr Johnson's real beliefs, often concealed behind a smokescreen of jokes, are not so much blandly centrist as nicely balanced between swashbuckling extremes.
The specialty hospitals say that the kickback argument is a smokescreen.
The continent's leaders should by now be confident enough to see Mr Mugabe's harping on about African solidarity against imperialism for the self-serving smokescreen it is.
Kish could simply be a smokescreen for a company acting as both owner and insurer of its vessels not exactly what insurance is meant to be.
Overall, however, Mr Ghanem's remarks are very much in line with Libya's previous tactics of putting up a smokescreen to hide the fundamental changes in its position.
"I don't think a small atrium is going to really change those plans so I think that's a bit of a smokescreen in a way, " she added.
Question from: lisa: Jane, do you feel the latest development with Littleton was an initial smokescreen way back then to throw heat off Skakel and the Kennedys?
Indian diplomats say the talk of a threat from India is a smokescreen to divert attention from Pakistan's failure to tackle the real issue: its nurturing of terrorists.
"Managed migration" is simply a smokescreen for a failed policy.
"What I saw was a man who was trying to set up a smokescreen about the decade of disaster that he has put upon our city schools, " he said.
And the smokescreen appears to have worked as hockey fans, at least for the time being, have readily turned from blasting the league to making hipster jokes on Twitter.
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Bender even suggests that the FDA has lost some of its objectivity and the attention currently being paid to EPA's part in the process is acting as a smokescreen.
Britain's Defence Secretary John Reid said UK forces had used white phosphorus in Iraq, but not as "anything other than a smokescreen to protect our troops when in action".
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