Sentence examples for official deniability from inspiring English sources

This reaching for official deniability is proof positive that political influence is indeed the name of the game.

This decision was made verbally to give officials "plausible deniability," according to an email exchange that was released as part of a Freedom of Information Act request by a coalition of anti-Secure Communities groups.

The official silence affords everyone plausible deniability.

This created a legal veneer of deniability for high officials who wanted to pretend to themselves that in ordering torture with the approval of lawyers — and not just any lawyers, but the lawyers they ordered to approve it after firing or bureaucratically burying lawyers who disapproved of it — they were not ordering American troops and intelligence officers to commit crimes.

As one former senior administration official put it, "We needed plausible deniability in case the arms got into the hands of Al Nusra".

Legal scholars said the lack of an official transcript would give the White House some deniability and make it more difficult to use the president's words as evidence in a future suit against the government.

"It's not for us to determine what the donations are used for," said one official, who requested anonymity to discuss administration thinking, describing a plausible deniability that might not be plausible to all.

As Annie told me, "Outsourcing for certain dubious operations from the official spies to… these corporate spies [creates an aura of] plausible deniability".

Blackwater official Enrique Prado is quoted as writing, "these are all foreign nationals...so deniability is built in and should be a big plus".

Officials like Sawers use equally esoteric bureaucratic hurdles to maintain plausible deniability over their complicity in torture.

A U.S. intelligence official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said employing criminal hackers helps "complement Kremlin intentions and provide plausible deniability for the Russian state".