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.
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.
But the opposition parties said that attempts to blame school selection policies and the "foundation" status of three schools had been a smokescreen.
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.
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.
"Managed migration" is simply a smokescreen for a failed policy.
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.
But whereas that proved largely a smokescreen for continued royal rule, Mr Benkirane has the power to choose his own ministers, present his own budget and promote his own legislation.
But it could be a bit of a smokescreen.
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This constant smokescreen of hyperbolic nonsense distracts the public and policymakers from dealing with the real issues that everyone agrees come along with the highly positive aspects of oil and natural gas development.
But the suspicion among some has been that the charges of impropriety were a convenient smokescreen to cover a simple truth - that HP had paid far too much in its desperation to land the deal.
In a video released by her office last week outlining her renewed opposition, she let it slip that the demand for better science was nothing more than a smokescreen for efforts to simply kill the idea.
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