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I ’m a parent of three boys, and when I hear from my boys [ that ] they do n’t want to go to the bathroom because people will be vaping in there, it just breaks my heart that they’re not having a bathroom break all day because of that, that kids are so addicted that they have to sneak away to the bathroom, or they are vaping in class using some covert pieces of clothing, shows this really is a public health crisis. Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team. – Susan Walley	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Drano is not a covert poisoning agent, it’s got a crazy terrible taste, it burns, your eyes start watering. – Scott Simmons	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Putin seems to lack confidence that polls and protestations of support for the war will survive a general conscription effort. Recruitment for volunteer battalions or covert mobilization only affects a small percentage of servicemen and their families, such separation allows Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to control the appearance of the invasion without upsetting most of the Russian male population and their families. – Kateryna Stepanenko	Found on CNN 1 year ago
This sort of thing lends itself to covert action on the part of The US government, and I trust and hope that we are doing something along those lines. – James Clapper	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. – Jake Sullivan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow, computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. – Jake Sullivan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. – Jake Sullivan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow, computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank. – Jake Sullivan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
These activities ... cross the line by attempting toundermine our democratic processes or threaten our citizens in a covert and clandestine manner. – Director David Vigneault	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Russia has been the leader in using new technologies to attack targets in covert and confusing ways. Russia is an active leader in what strategists are calling the gray zone of warfare attacks in the gray zone between war and peace, attacking U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China are likely experimentation with this weapon but also serves the political interests of antagonizing U.S. relations with Cuba and China and creates fear, disruptionand distraction among U.S. diplomats and officials. – Nick Dowling	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
We dont actually know precisely how long Iran would need to turn this into a testable nuclear weapon one of the JCPOAs key flaws was allowing Iran to keep inspectors in the dark about the true extent of covert bomb design under Fakhrizadeh. – Michael Makovsky	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
The simple difference is between covert interference on one side and public preferences. China is using influence, diplomacy and commentary in press and propaganda organs. Russia is using disinformation, fake accounts, bots, covert funding as part of a secret campaign. – Former CIA officer John Sipher	Found on CNN 3 years ago
9/11 ushered covert and overt surveillance regimes, many of which were unlawful. – Edin Omanovic	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If the question is are there clandestine assets on Twitter or on Instagram or on Facebook that are engaged in some sort of 2016 style covert activity, our experience thus far is no, we haven't identified anything like that. – Nathaniel Gleicher	Found on CNN 4 years ago
If those conversations with Putin or with other world leaders are sequestered in that same electronic file that is meant for covert action, not meant for this, if there's an effort to hide those and cover those up, yes we're determined to find out. – Democrat Adam Schiff	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
We ended up with stagflation, back then, the president was using covert means to influence The Fed. Here we have a president overtly complaining about his appointee. – Narayana Kocherlakota	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Compiled this month by the Cabinet Office under the codename Operation Yellowhammer, the dossier offers a rare glimpse into the covert planning being carried out by the government to avert a catastrophic collapse in the nation's infrastructure, the file, marked. – The Times	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
I think that it opened everyone's eyes to how much different foreign governments tried to influence our political discourse in a covert manner. – John Demers	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
And unilaterally imposed and politically motivated sanctions on investment, trade and, in particular, technology transfer become its covert form, in our opinion, such sanctions not only have no perspective, but they also contradict the G20 principles for interacting in the interests of all countries of the world. – Vladimir Putin	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
The overt economy is predominantly sales of natural resources, the covert economy is harder to estimate, but consists of weapons sales, the counterfeiting of U.S. $100 bills . . . production and distribution of illegal narcotics, cigarettes and pharmaceuticals, including Viagra, insurance scams, money laundering, and cybercrime. – Bruce Klingner	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
North Korea has both an overt and covert economy through which it gains money, the overt economy is predominantly sales of natural resources. – Bruce Klingner	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
From Iraq to Syria to Libya to covert operations, when I traveled extensively in those areas like I do, I see a tremendous amount of the fallout from misguided U.S. policies. – Jeffrey Sachs	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Under the Antideficiency Act, EPA must conduct an internal investigation and identify the persons responsible, however, EPA is dismissive of GAO’s legal decision. In fact, even though GAO issued its legal decision on December 14, EPA has not removed from its website the messages that GAO found to be covert propaganda and grass roots lobbying. – Environmental Protection Agency	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
Despite the fact that the Government Accountability Office found that they broke federal law by running a covert propaganda campaign to support their sweeping WOTUS (Waters of the United States) rule, the EPA has doubled down on their lawlessness, it’s time for the Department of Justice to investigate. – Ben Sasse	Found on FOX News 8 years ago

I ’m a parent of three boys, and when I hear from my boys [ that ] they do n’t want to go to the bathroom because people will be vaping in there, it just breaks my heart that they’re not having a bathroom break all day because of that, that kids are so addicted that they have to sneak away to the bathroom, or they are vaping in class using some covert pieces of clothing, shows this really is a public health crisis. Get CNN Health's weekly newsletter Sign up here to get The Results Are In with Dr. Sanjay Gupta every Tuesday from the CNN Health team.

– Susan Walley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Drano is not a covert poisoning agent, it’s got a crazy terrible taste, it burns, your eyes start watering.

– Scott Simmons

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Putin seems to lack confidence that polls and protestations of support for the war will survive a general conscription effort. Recruitment for volunteer battalions or covert mobilization only affects a small percentage of servicemen and their families, such separation allows Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin to control the appearance of the invasion without upsetting most of the Russian male population and their families.

– Kateryna Stepanenko

Found on CNN
1 year ago

This sort of thing lends itself to covert action on the part of The US government, and I trust and hope that we are doing something along those lines.

– James Clapper

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow, computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

This could be the most direct link yet between Donald Trump and Moscow, computer scientists have uncovered a covert server linking the Trump Organization to a Russian-based bank.

– Jake Sullivan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

These activities ... cross the line by attempting toundermine our democratic processes or threaten our citizens in a covert and clandestine manner.

– Director David Vigneault

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Russia has been the leader in using new technologies to attack targets in covert and confusing ways. Russia is an active leader in what strategists are calling the gray zone of warfare attacks in the gray zone between war and peace, attacking U.S. diplomats in Cuba and China are likely experimentation with this weapon but also serves the political interests of antagonizing U.S. relations with Cuba and China and creates fear, disruptionand distraction among U.S. diplomats and officials.

– Nick Dowling

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

We dont actually know precisely how long Iran would need to turn this into a testable nuclear weapon one of the JCPOAs key flaws was allowing Iran to keep inspectors in the dark about the true extent of covert bomb design under Fakhrizadeh.

– Michael Makovsky

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

The simple difference is between covert interference on one side and public preferences. China is using influence, diplomacy and commentary in press and propaganda organs. Russia is using disinformation, fake accounts, bots, covert funding as part of a secret campaign.

– Former CIA officer John Sipher

Found on CNN
3 years ago

9/11 ushered covert and overt surveillance regimes, many of which were unlawful.

– Edin Omanovic

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If the question is are there clandestine assets on Twitter or on Instagram or on Facebook that are engaged in some sort of 2016 style covert activity, our experience thus far is no, we haven't identified anything like that.

– Nathaniel Gleicher

Found on CNN
4 years ago

If those conversations with Putin or with other world leaders are sequestered in that same electronic file that is meant for covert action, not meant for this, if there's an effort to hide those and cover those up, yes we're determined to find out.

– Democrat Adam Schiff

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We ended up with stagflation, back then, the president was using covert means to influence The Fed. Here we have a president overtly complaining about his appointee.

– Narayana Kocherlakota

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Compiled this month by the Cabinet Office under the codename Operation Yellowhammer, the dossier offers a rare glimpse into the covert planning being carried out by the government to avert a catastrophic collapse in the nation's infrastructure, the file, marked.

– The Times

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

I think that it opened everyone's eyes to how much different foreign governments tried to influence our political discourse in a covert manner.

– John Demers

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

And unilaterally imposed and politically motivated sanctions on investment, trade and, in particular, technology transfer become its covert form, in our opinion, such sanctions not only have no perspective, but they also contradict the G20 principles for interacting in the interests of all countries of the world.

– Vladimir Putin

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

The overt economy is predominantly sales of natural resources, the covert economy is harder to estimate, but consists of weapons sales, the counterfeiting of U.S. $100 bills . . . production and distribution of illegal narcotics, cigarettes and pharmaceuticals, including Viagra, insurance scams, money laundering, and cybercrime.

– Bruce Klingner

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

North Korea has both an overt and covert economy through which it gains money, the overt economy is predominantly sales of natural resources.

– Bruce Klingner

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

From Iraq to Syria to Libya to covert operations, when I traveled extensively in those areas like I do, I see a tremendous amount of the fallout from misguided U.S. policies.

– Jeffrey Sachs

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Under the Antideficiency Act, EPA must conduct an internal investigation and identify the persons responsible, however, EPA is dismissive of GAO’s legal decision. In fact, even though GAO issued its legal decision on December 14, EPA has not removed from its website the messages that GAO found to be covert propaganda and grass roots lobbying.

– Environmental Protection Agency

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Despite the fact that the Government Accountability Office found that they broke federal law by running a covert propaganda campaign to support their sweeping WOTUS (Waters of the United States) rule, the EPA has doubled down on their lawlessness, it’s time for the Department of Justice to investigate.

– Ben Sasse

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

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