In an email sent to Obama for America supporters, Campaign Manager Jim Messina wrote that the Republican cries of "class warfare" are a "rhetorical smokescreen for providing millionaires and billionaires special treatment".
But in the weeks following Morsi's ouster, the moderates who provided the smokescreen for the army's return to political life still carried some influence.
The affair, and the impression it gave that Boothby was "a ladies' man", provided a smokescreen for his homosexual activities, and also proved helpful when, in 1953, he pressed the home secretary, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, to set up a body to reconsider the law relating to homosexuality.
The breakdown in Syrian-Iraqi relations that followed the August explosions provided a smokescreen covering the real message the bombings were designed to deliver: that highest security zones can be attacked with simultaneous bombs at the approximate time of high-level government meetings, and that the bombers can strike at a time and location of their choosing.
Brian Castner, Amnesty International's senior crisis adviser on arms and military operations, said the civilian deaths indicated that US secrecy over its role in Somalia's war had effectively provided "a smokescreen for impunity".
Sarojeni V. Rengam, Executive Director, Pesticide Action Network Asia & the Pacific (PAN AP), explained how public/private partnerships have provided a smokescreen for land grabs in the Philippines and East Malaysia.
These aforementioned privacy-preserving mechanisms as well as other privacy-aware sensing model and architecture already described extensively by Khan et al. [24] (e.g. Secure SocialAware, SmokeScreen, and Prisense) provide real opportunities to address privacy concerns and improve the efficacy of different types of incentive schemes used for facilitating large-scale mobile crowdsensing campaigns.
As the protesters screamed and choked, the tear gas provided an effective smokescreen for police as they began clubbing protesters with batons.
But their letter and their backgrounds have provided Oz with the smoke for a smokescreen.
Another is the bizarre and extreme-nationalist figure of Vladimir Zhirinovsky who has provided Mr Yeltsin with loyal support under a smokescreen of feverish rhetoric.
