Or was he using that obstinacy for some covert purpose of his own?
It is a one-sided war with a not-so-covert purpose of destroying any hope of a Palestinian homeland and independent national life.
The answer is that it is the result of a block-voting campaign by a small clique of American writers and fans to reassert their ownership of the Hugos, for the not-so-covert purpose of boosting the organisers' own status.
However, the Bush Administration unilaterally determined after 9/11 that intelligence operations conducted by the military including the Pentagon's covert task forces for the purposes of "preparing the battlefield" could be authorized by the President, as Commander-in-Chief, without telling Congress.
Similarly, the output of the salience map can be used for any behavioral purpose including covert attention, guidance of eye or arm movements, etc.
However, the Bush Administration unilaterally determined after 9/11 that intelligence operations conducted by the military — including the Pentagon's covert task forces — for the purposes of "preparing the battlefield" could be authorized by the President, as Commander-in-Chief, without telling Congress.
Over 50 years construing the provision, GAO has cultivated a doctrine that separates "publicity or propaganda" into three types of inappropriate activity: 1) "self-aggrandizement," 2) "purely partisan purposes," and 3) "covert propaganda". Self-aggrandizement (also known as "puffery") refers to an agency's efforts to overstate its own importance.
The Guardian asked BAE what was the purpose of the covert cash transfers to Gen Pinochet.
Cyber espionage is merely the covert collection of data for intelligence purposes.
7 Clinicians are becoming aware of the possibility of being recorded and are concerned that the recordings, especially those that are covert, would be used for litigation purposes.
