Because of its clandestine nature, it's impossible to quantify exactly how many people in the US are illegally getting their butts pumped up like a pair of Reeboks.
In the same way, the Muslim Brotherhood's style of governance during its brief stint in power was marked by its history as a clandestine group: it was conspiratorial, unable or unwilling to explain itself to outsiders, and utterly deaf to the wishes of the broader populace.
Call it the right to pursue the news without turning that pursuit into the sort of clandestine adventure it is in so much of the Middle East.
There's nothing clandestine about it.
He has not exactly been clandestine about it.
"I think it is very important for the international community to recognise the fact that if Iran were to develop the knowledge that they could transfer to a clandestine program, it would create a danger of the world.
"It is doubtful if the coup would ever have been attempted without the American show of strength in Vietnam," Reston wrote, "or been sustained without the clandestine aid it has received indirectly from here".
When the two begin a clandestine relationship, it proceeds more from movie star logic (the two most attractive people in any film are destined to become a couple) than it does from dramatic necessity.
Clandestine groups — it was never determined if they had links to the Russian government — commandeered computers around the globe and directed a fire hose of data at Estonia's banking system and its government Web sites.
Felt believed he was protecting the bureau by finding a way, clandestine as it was, to push some of the information from the FBI interviews and files out to the public, to help build public and political pressure to make Nixon answerable.
