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Jim Crow laws stripped blacks of basic rights. Despite landmark civil rights laws, many public schools were still segregated, blacks still faced barriers to voting, and violence by white racists continued. Such open racism is mostly gone in America, but covert racism is alive and well. Bob Beckel

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You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. Arundhati Roy

For decades, the men at Area 51 thought they'd take their secrets to the grave. At the height of the Cold War, they cultivated anonymity while pursuing some of the country's most covert projects. Conspiracy theories were left to popular imagination. Annie Jacobsen

War Thought Conspiracy Men Country Imagination Cold Cold War Projects Secrets Some Area Pursuing Take Most Anonymity Were Cultivated Covert Left Decades While Height Theories Popular Grave

In reality the workings of your governing system are opaque and covert, while hiding in the chattering spotlight of an ostensible transparency, even though the ultimate objective is clear. Breyten Breytenbach

Reality Though System Hiding Objective Chattering Opaque Clear Spotlight Governing Ultimate Covert While Your Transparency Workings Even

We operate under the law. Covert action authorities are communicated in a memorandum of notification. Cofer Black

Law Action Operate Covert Authorities

I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say. Evan McMullin

Intelligence Liberty Other Other Countries Say Spent Carried Out Ten Ten Years Hostile Countries Over Undercover Like Well Operations Terrorist Years Covert Overseas Officer Where After Central Against Agency Who Groups Al-Qaeda Serving

In examining the CIA's past and present use of the U.S. media, the Committee finds two reasons for concern. The first is the potential, inherent in covert media operations, for manipulating or incidentally misleading the American public. Frank Church

No one wants to friend or follow covert info about Pakistan's nuclear policy. Jen Lancaster

Follow About No-One Policy Covert Friend Wants Pakistan Nuclear

There is no part of the executive branch that more exists on the outer edge of executive prerogative than the American intelligence community - the intelligence community, CIA, covert action. My literal responsibility as director of CIA with regard to covert action was to inform the Congress - not to seek their approval, to inform. Michael Hayden

Director CIA Intelligence Responsibility Edge Intelligence Community Community Congress Action Approval Outer Seek More Part Executive Executive Branch Covert Exists Branch Than American Literal Regard Inform Prerogative

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action. Ralph Ellison

Action Preparation More Covert

You cannot deny the fact that, in the United States, there are some really great guys with rich experience in overt and covert special operations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Ramzan Kadyrov

I have covered Israeli hostage and M.I.A. cases for more than 15 years, including the covert ways in which Israel's powerful espionage agencies operate to bring soldiers home alive or dead. Over that time, the issue has come to dominate public discourse to a degree that no one could have predicted. Ronen Bergman

Time Home Degree Soldiers Ways Alive Cases More Could Hostage No-One Powerful Over Come Dead Operate Israel Israeli Issue Discourse Covered Years Covert Dominate Than Espionage Predicted Which Public Public Discourse Agencies Including Bring

I think we're probably only about halfway through the number of revelations. I'm pretty certain there will be quite detailed stuff on other uses of covert surveillance. I suspect that emails will be the next scandal. And devices that track people moving around. That's just starting to come out. Tom A. Watson

People Will Think Other Emails Out Scandal Detailed Pretty About Only Through Stuff Devices Come Track Halfway Around Revelations Covert Surveillance Suspect Quite Just Moving Next Certain Uses Number Starting

Of a truth, there is an inward, formless, inarticulate, almost unconscious, prayer, the very breath of love, whereby the soul is knit fast to the God whom it has tracked, amidst the tangled underwood of human life, to his covert on the eternal hills. Vincent McNabb

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Under the 1991 Intelligence Authorization Act, US intelligence agencies cannot engage in covert actions abroad without a presidential finding that these operations are important to US national security. Asha Rangappa

Intelligence Important National Presidential Security Finding Abroad Operations Without Covert Intelligence Agencies National Security Authorization Cannot Agencies Us Engage Act Actions

In an unconstitutional partnership with the state, the church can impose the most irresistible, if covert, controls conceivable. Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Church State Unconstitutional Most Partnership Impose Covert Controls Irresistible

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