Michael Sechrist, a researcher who has studied the security of undersea cables, said: "The risk here is that any country could cause damage to the system and do it in a way that is completely covert, without having a warship with a cable-cutting equipment right in the area.
Ms. Covert (without a hint of irony) asserts: "The Affordable Care Act's requirement that health insurance offer birth control without cost-sharing has resulted in an estimated 57.6 million American women getting contraception without a co-payment.
The legal questions about the Pentagon's right to conduct covert operations without informing Congress have not been resolved.
Ramot, M., Grossman, S., Friedman, D. & Malach, R. Covert neurofeedback without awareness shapes cortical network spontaneous connectivity.
He has repeatedly said that the Administration should be able to use secret covert programs without their becoming known.
' " Referring to his days at the C.I.A., Smith added, "We were always careful not to use the armed forces in a covert action without a Presidential finding.
More seriously, their "re-retouching", as he put it, was a covert repainting without leaving any record of their actions in the museum's files.
Nov. 25: John N. McMahon, Deputy Director of Central Intelligence, says the C.I.A. cannot provide any more covert assistance without an explicit authorization from the President.
From the authorities' viewpoint, it is hard to see how counterterrorism agencies can move against covert extremism without adopting covert tactics of their own: wiretaps and tails, informers and infiltrators, disinformation and deceit — the gamut of tradecraft developed to deal with the Irish Republican Army or foreign spies in the Cold War, now updated for the Internet era.
The CIA often has been portrayed by its critics as an agency run amok that implements covert operations without the approval of the executive branch of the U.S. government.
After the scandals involving abuse of the F.B.I.'s surveillance authority in the 1970's, Congress required the executive branch to notify the intelligence committees about its covert operations without disclosing them to the world.
