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The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

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You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

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The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations. ↗

— Frank Church

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In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. ↗

— Frank Church

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We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. ↗

— Cofer Black

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I am still profoundly troubled by the war in Nicaragua. The United States launched a covert war against another nation in violation of international law, a war that was wrong and immoral. ↗

— Bianca Jagger

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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak. ↗

— Oliver North

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In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. ↗

— Madalyn Murray O'Hair

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I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out. ↗

— Tom A. Watson

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In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. ↗

— Breyten Breytenbach

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