In an interview with Guardian Australia, the communications minister said the ABC had announced programming changes as part of its budget cuts because it was using the government as a "bogey man" to give it "cover for changes it wanted to make anyway".
But the imminent arrival of a new version of its flagship PC operating system, Windows 8, seems to provide cover for the change.
Russia also feels deeply that it was duped into accepting a UN resolution criticising Muammar Gaddafi in Libya in 2011, only to find it was used as cover for regime change.
Using health programs as cover for political change can have unintended and deadly consequences, as we're now seeing in other parts of the world.
What made Blair distinctive was the way he articulated British imperialism in the language of liberalism; a technique so effective it's been used as a cover for regime change ever since.
Pale pinks, lush blacks, and deep whites drew the eye to the stage rather than providing cover for costume changes.
Critics of the administration say the report could provide Dr. Paige with political cover for making changes in the way Title IX is enforced, even if they were only incremental.
Obscure phrases like "my government will continue to build an economy that rewards those who work hard" may be invoked as cover for substantive changes, such as benefit cuts, which could still be effected through regulation at some later stage.
I almost would rather Obama come out and say, "Oh yeah that was always intended to give me some political cover for policy changes I always knew were inevitable, LOL, you got me," because the alternative is that Obama doesn't know basic things about how health insurance works.
He was never without a small notebook whose cover read "Comedy for Change," in which he scribbled constant reminders to himself.
