The anti-slavery campaigner Steve Trent of the Environmental Justice Foundation says slavery on Thai fishing boats is an open secret acknowledged by Thailand and the many governments and businesses that trade with it.
(His identity as the essay's author was an open secret and acknowledged in The Atlantic Monthly's annual index).
"He's definitely got a limp, there's no doubt about it," the secret scrutineer acknowledges, peering through his camera.
Then, the open secret openly acknowledged, she was able to pay touching tribute to her ex-partner Cyd, their children and her mother.
He spent the following year in custody — first in secret, then acknowledged — before he was sentenced on Christmas Day, 2009, to eleven years in prison for "inciting subversion of state power".
In Italy, as the secret cable acknowledges, the U.S. tried to prevent Italian prosecutors from going after 23 CIA agents who kidnapped Abu Omar off the streets of Milan and rendered him to Egypt to be interrogated under torture there.
As if that isn't quite enough, she adds: "To their secret history and lives, acknowledging meaning in their domestic lives".
Backpedaling is apology in the passive voice, like suddenly acknowledging those secret C.I.A. prisons that we were unable to locate for a while.
We told her to call the police because these threats are a class-B misdemeanor, but she just rolled her eyes (thereby acknowledging the secret truththese people are irrelevant pussies).
Created by presidential directive in 1952, the NSA has remained, despite its enormous size and worldwide activities, the most secret of the acknowledged U.S. intelligence units; even the directive creating the agency remains secret.
