He prefers to operate in the gray areas of covert action, intimidation, extortion and influence peddling.
Imbonerakure has been linked to a covert campaign of intimidation against Tutsis.
By the fall of '69 the President's assault on the press & the TV networks had grown into an elaborate, highly organized overt & covert program of intimidation.
To his critics, Lutfur Rahman's five-year tenure as mayor of Tower Hamlets – which came to an end on Thursday at the high court in London – has been plagued by corruption, voter intimidation and covert "Islamisation".
Some journalists like to mock what they call "access journalism," but blocking a reporter from meeting her sources or making sure that the administration is wary of engaging her is also a form of press intimidation, albeit a more covert and insidious one.
According to Coverdale et al, the most common degrading experiences for interns were 'threats, intimidation, humiliation, excessive criticism, covert innuendo, exclusion or denial of access to opportunity, undue additions to work requirements and shifting of responsibilities without appropriate notice'(ref. 5, p.269).
Even President John F. Kennedy made an appearance, through footage from a 1961 speech that warned of "a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence... on intimidation instead of free choice".
He supported Cameron's visit, saying it had helped highlight intimidation of the media, and said the biggest issue for journalists was covert surveillance by the military, often in civilian clothes.
What lies between is a legal and ethical morass of media intimidation and grass-roots fakery, much of it purportedly orchestrated by a high-end risk management firm whose hiring department, according to this film, may favor former covert operatives.
