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The question is simply what is going on — and if there’s nothing nefarious, then let us know, it’s so ludicrous that you can have something as simple as Tylenol saying where it’s from, then something the complete opposite with no answers. – Di Liberto	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
When there are delays in counting, it doesn't mean anything nefarious is happening, it's just what the law is in Pennsylvania. – Leigh Chapman	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
If political leaders at the state and local level better understood the magnitude of the risk and the fact that they were essentially doing things that didn't necessarily comply with the federal ban, my suspicion is that more action would be taken to stop this stuff, i don't think anyone is trying to do anything bad here. I don't think anyone is being nefarious. – Michael Kratsios	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The number of Venezuelan migrants encountered by [CBP] has increased nearly 3,000 percent from fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2022, given the reports of the deliberate, nefarious actions of the illegitimate Maduro regime, it is more important than ever that CBP has the tools and capabilities in place to identify foreign violent criminals, affiliates of FTOs, and affiliates of TCOs. – August Pfluger	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
This is just chilling to me. It is tapping into millennia-old antisemitic tropes about nefarious Jewish wealth, control, conspiracy, media connections and political string-pulling, to name names and keep lists, which has a very sinister history in Judaism, in terms of how we are targeted, is very irresponsible. [The group] needs to take this down and apologize. – Jake Auchincloss	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
The lawsuit filed today outlines the defendants’ nefarious plot to vilify Donald J. Trump by spreading lies to weave a false narrative that he was colluding with Russia, for years, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts attempted to shield themselves from culpability by directing others to do their dirty work for them. – Alina Habba	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Are you going to look at the glass as half full or as half empty? Because if it’s half empty that’s a negative view of life, that’s where too many of our political leaders come from and all it does is serve their, I think, nefarious agenda to divide us and to say you’re a victim, you’re always going to be a victim, and the other people are the oppressors and so you need us. – Elizabeth Frantz -RRB- Sears	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
And yet, the way that some of the Democrats are spinning this, trying to spin some nefarious purpose. – Mark Meadows	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
From a scientific standpoint, I don’t think they point to anything nefarious. – Stephen Goldstein	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The main crackpot theories going around at the moment relate to this virus being somehow engineered with intent and that is demonstrably not the case, engineering can mean many things and could be done for either basic research or nefarious reasons, but the data conclusively show that neither was done…. – Kristian Andersen	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They’re given these conjured-up quotes, and it comes from a nefarious source. Does this all sound familiar? And it’s not Deep Throat we’re talking about here, it’s a political operative that had an agenda. – Fox News	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
You have a very vocal executive who enjoys putting out content on Twitter, if there was evidence of nefarious intent to pump up the price of something, the SEC would look at that. But absent that, people are going to tweet and there is no agency responsible for policing Twitter. – Ashley Ebersole	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This shows the nefarious mindset of the Communist Party of China, to take advantage of a worldwide crisis like COVID, we put out an advisory to not only every American, but to hospitals, associationsand clinics. – Bill Evanina	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
It’s kind of nefarious, but is it illegal? No. – Edward Roberts	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
In internet space, these techniques can grow rapidly in what is called viral storms, platforms are presently nearly helpless in managing these storms because they propagate outside the business control systems of these companies. This is why companies like Facebook and Twitter have struggled to create newalgorithms to counter nefarious uses of their technology after the fact. They never anticipated this type of misuse of their infrastructure. – Dennis Santiago	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Everything that can be used for a nefarious purpose, will eventually be found by a nefarious person and used for a nefarious purpose, if you pair your phone with a rental car, and that car gets in a crash two years later, personal information about you could be pulled off it. – Justin Schorr	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The main problem that people wearing masks throws up is the sheer volume of people suddenly covering their faces, it could create opportunities for people who want to cover their face for nefarious reasons. They could potentially now do so without raising suspicion. – Francis Dodsworth	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Once again, The Supreme Court has thrown out federal criminal convictions of public officials who, by their own admission, abused their power for corrupt and illegitimate purposes, the harder question is whether Congress will respond to rulings like this one by expanding the scope of these laws, or whether we're going to end up with a world in which criminal liability for such nefarious conduct depends upon the color of one's collar. – Steve Vladeck	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We have a lot of examples of the presumed criminality of black men in general, and then we have the advice to go out in public in something that... can certainly be read as being criminal or nefarious, particularly when applied to black men. – Trevon Logan	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Everyone deserves an attorney to go through the process, there is nothing nefarious here about wanting to be a defense attorney. I just wanted to be the best attorney that I could be to help people. – Congress Collins	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When I Geraldo RiveraFacts First : Trump saw the transcript without the two substantive items that I had attempted to include, I didn't see that as nefarious. I just saw Geraldo RiveraFacts First : Trump as, OK, no big deal. You know, these might be meaningful, but it's not that big a deal. – Alexander Vindman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
One could change a case definition for sort of nefarious reasons to create the illusion that the epidemic is getting better. In this case, China did exactly the opposite, they broadened their case definition when they needed to, in order not to miss cases, and now that things are under control they're narrowing it down again to make it consistent to easier to keep track of what's really going on. – David Fisman	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Everyone with whom I've spoken, or whom I've read, thinks that it has come from a natural source, as did the SARS virus, as did the MERS virus. Both of those were also coronaviruses in animal populations that jumped to the human species in the natural environment, by now scientists all over the world have looked at this virus and nothing nefarious has come up. – William Schaffner	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When I Facts First saw the transcript without the two substantive items that I had attempted to include, I didn't see that as nefarious. I just saw Facts First as, OK, no big deal. You know, these might be meaningful, but it's not that big a deal. – Alexander Vindman	Found on CNN 4 years ago

The question is simply what is going on — and if there’s nothing nefarious, then let us know, it’s so ludicrous that you can have something as simple as Tylenol saying where it’s from, then something the complete opposite with no answers.

– Di Liberto

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When there are delays in counting, it doesn't mean anything nefarious is happening, it's just what the law is in Pennsylvania.

– Leigh Chapman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If political leaders at the state and local level better understood the magnitude of the risk and the fact that they were essentially doing things that didn't necessarily comply with the federal ban, my suspicion is that more action would be taken to stop this stuff, i don't think anyone is trying to do anything bad here. I don't think anyone is being nefarious.

– Michael Kratsios

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The number of Venezuelan migrants encountered by [CBP] has increased nearly 3,000 percent from fiscal year 2020 to fiscal year 2022, given the reports of the deliberate, nefarious actions of the illegitimate Maduro regime, it is more important than ever that CBP has the tools and capabilities in place to identify foreign violent criminals, affiliates of FTOs, and affiliates of TCOs.

– August Pfluger

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

This is just chilling to me. It is tapping into millennia-old antisemitic tropes about nefarious Jewish wealth, control, conspiracy, media connections and political string-pulling, to name names and keep lists, which has a very sinister history in Judaism, in terms of how we are targeted, is very irresponsible. [The group] needs to take this down and apologize.

– Jake Auchincloss

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The lawsuit filed today outlines the defendants’ nefarious plot to vilify Donald J. Trump by spreading lies to weave a false narrative that he was colluding with Russia, for years, Hillary Clinton and her cohorts attempted to shield themselves from culpability by directing others to do their dirty work for them.

– Alina Habba

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Are you going to look at the glass as half full or as half empty? Because if it’s half empty that’s a negative view of life, that’s where too many of our political leaders come from and all it does is serve their, I think, nefarious agenda to divide us and to say you’re a victim, you’re always going to be a victim, and the other people are the oppressors and so you need us.

– Elizabeth Frantz -RRB- Sears

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

And yet, the way that some of the Democrats are spinning this, trying to spin some nefarious purpose.

– Mark Meadows

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From a scientific standpoint, I don’t think they point to anything nefarious.

– Stephen Goldstein

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The main crackpot theories going around at the moment relate to this virus being somehow engineered with intent and that is demonstrably not the case, engineering can mean many things and could be done for either basic research or nefarious reasons, but the data conclusively show that neither was done….

– Kristian Andersen

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’re given these conjured-up quotes, and it comes from a nefarious source. Does this all sound familiar? And it’s not Deep Throat we’re talking about here, it’s a political operative that had an agenda.

– Fox News

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

You have a very vocal executive who enjoys putting out content on Twitter, if there was evidence of nefarious intent to pump up the price of something, the SEC would look at that. But absent that, people are going to tweet and there is no agency responsible for policing Twitter.

– Ashley Ebersole

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This shows the nefarious mindset of the Communist Party of China, to take advantage of a worldwide crisis like COVID, we put out an advisory to not only every American, but to hospitals, associationsand clinics.

– Bill Evanina

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

It’s kind of nefarious, but is it illegal? No.

– Edward Roberts

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In internet space, these techniques can grow rapidly in what is called viral storms, platforms are presently nearly helpless in managing these storms because they propagate outside the business control systems of these companies. This is why companies like Facebook and Twitter have struggled to create newalgorithms to counter nefarious uses of their technology after the fact. They never anticipated this type of misuse of their infrastructure.

– Dennis Santiago

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Everything that can be used for a nefarious purpose, will eventually be found by a nefarious person and used for a nefarious purpose, if you pair your phone with a rental car, and that car gets in a crash two years later, personal information about you could be pulled off it.

– Justin Schorr

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The main problem that people wearing masks throws up is the sheer volume of people suddenly covering their faces, it could create opportunities for people who want to cover their face for nefarious reasons. They could potentially now do so without raising suspicion.

– Francis Dodsworth

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Once again, The Supreme Court has thrown out federal criminal convictions of public officials who, by their own admission, abused their power for corrupt and illegitimate purposes, the harder question is whether Congress will respond to rulings like this one by expanding the scope of these laws, or whether we're going to end up with a world in which criminal liability for such nefarious conduct depends upon the color of one's collar.

– Steve Vladeck

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We have a lot of examples of the presumed criminality of black men in general, and then we have the advice to go out in public in something that... can certainly be read as being criminal or nefarious, particularly when applied to black men.

– Trevon Logan

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Everyone deserves an attorney to go through the process, there is nothing nefarious here about wanting to be a defense attorney. I just wanted to be the best attorney that I could be to help people.

– Congress Collins

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When I Geraldo RiveraFacts First : Trump saw the transcript without the two substantive items that I had attempted to include, I didn't see that as nefarious. I just saw Geraldo RiveraFacts First : Trump as, OK, no big deal. You know, these might be meaningful, but it's not that big a deal.

– Alexander Vindman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

One could change a case definition for sort of nefarious reasons to create the illusion that the epidemic is getting better. In this case, China did exactly the opposite, they broadened their case definition when they needed to, in order not to miss cases, and now that things are under control they're narrowing it down again to make it consistent to easier to keep track of what's really going on.

– David Fisman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Everyone with whom I've spoken, or whom I've read, thinks that it has come from a natural source, as did the SARS virus, as did the MERS virus. Both of those were also coronaviruses in animal populations that jumped to the human species in the natural environment, by now scientists all over the world have looked at this virus and nothing nefarious has come up.

– William Schaffner

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When I Facts First saw the transcript without the two substantive items that I had attempted to include, I didn't see that as nefarious. I just saw Facts First as, OK, no big deal. You know, these might be meaningful, but it's not that big a deal.

– Alexander Vindman

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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