They have returned with footage of their surreptitious entry, as well as two interviews from inside a Syrian refugee camp in Turkey and video from a pro-Assad rally in the president's Turkish hometown.
Why did Mr. Bush's aides keep coming back to the Africa case as "an emblematic example" of Mr. Hussein's surreptitious activities, as one administration official terms it, if so many in the intelligence world were questioning it?
Giving a speech on international aid, the deputy prime minister brushed off Oakeshott's efforts to undermine him with "surreptitious" polls as "odd, to put it very mildly".
Students grew their hair, wore fringe jackets and big denim bell bottoms and sneaked outside for a puff of marijuana, not just a surreptitious Marlboro as they had in the past.
Wayne S. Smith, a former American diplomat in Havana who now works at the Center for International Policy, said in an interview on Tuesday that the Cuban government saw the detainee's surreptitious activity as a continuation of the Bush administration's efforts to undermine the Cuban leadership.
These are instances of the increasing practice here, of politics as a surreptitious craft, such as is associated with the secret police of more intrigue-ridden continental areas.
"This suggests that Dr. Lee's actions may not have been as surreptitious, clandestine, and secretive as the government originally indicated," Judge Parker wrote.
The Zionists rebelled against the British through surreptitious immigration and settlement as well as armed struggle.
Now, however, we are using the modifier irregular to describe indigenous, surreptitious, intimidating, culturally persuasive as well as technically sophisticated methods beyond classic military force that we intend to employ — moderated by concerns about humane treatment and without taking aim at noncombatants.
