Cloudy now instead of clear, the spirit reveals writer's cruelty as a dulling process: one of obfuscation.
Mr. Bloomberg, who has had a reputation for enjoying night life, offered one mayoral-style obfuscation.
PDF files, especially malicious ones, routinely employ obfuscation in the form of compression, the use of different encodings and even encryption.
Published last summer, the research found "serial obfuscation" on the part of those contacted: in one in five cases, the researchers were unable to even find contact details for the data controller.
The intellectual dynamic here, is one of rejection and obfuscation.
Why should we trust this administration on surveillance when its approach to the overall war on terror -- its failure to heed pre-9/11 intelligence warnings, its W.M.D. claims, its treatment of prisoners -- has been one of secrecy and obfuscation, not to mention incompetence?
One can expect similar obfuscation from Obama in the future concerning bad advice from Summers, but he can't claim he wasn't forewarned about that advice.
This information source also presents a paradox in being, on the one hand, difficult to extract structured data from because of varying degrees of obfuscation, but on the other, full-text is easier to access than papers.
Mr Corbyn's obfuscation on shootto-kill has cut through.
The over-all picture presented by the report was one not of incompetence or obfuscation but of denial.
