Word: cloaks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...disservice to history that Clinton's four hours of testimony on April 8 went unrecorded--and that the commission has offered the same cloak of secrecy to Bush--but sources close to the panel briefed TIME on the session. One commissioner described the atmosphere in the SKIF as "clearly not hostile." Clinton brought along Sandy Berger, his affable National Security Adviser, and Bruce Lindsey, his longtime friend and White House consigliere. The former President offered to stay "as long as any of you want," according to commission chairman Thomas Kean, a Republican, who wouldn't reveal anything else Clinton said...
...found it to be a remarkably nonpartisan enterprise,” he said. “We had a pretty wide range of individuals across the political spectrum, and I think that pretty much everyone checked their political hat in the cloak room and the debate was very much on the substance of the issues and the intellectual debates...
...writer that government should get off people’s backs, but should also ban gay marriages. Logically unsound, effectively intolerant and intentionally insensitive, Ms. Thatcher’s argument was classically conservative. Her social life will surely suffer, but Ms. Thatcher and her fellow conservatives donning the shameful cloak of the moderate must end the charade now and reveal themselves in all their American-flag-draped glory...
...flap might have been its timing; it was one of three sightings in a week of the secret corps of covert operators who try to steer world affairs from the engine room as diplomats and politicians talk on the bridge. In Qatar, two Russian security agents lost their cloak of invisibility when they were charged with helping to assassinate Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, a former Chechen President with alleged links to al-Qaeda. The Russian Foreign Minister, Igor Ivanov, denounced their arrest as "unsubstantiated" and blasted Qatar for "virtually becoming Yandarbiyev's patron" - but at the same time defended the agents...
...Finally, I recognize the value of truth and transparency, both of which appear to be lacking in the government's handling of the proliferation scandal. The cloak of secrecy is thrown over investigations too frequently in Pakistan. We are?because of our history, our often hostile neighbors and our own mistakes?an insecure nation that too often hides behind the justification of national security. But at this moment, a fragile government coalition exists to change decades of misguided policies?policies of hostility and interventionism toward India and Afghanistan, policies of Islamization and religious militancy, and policies that led to economic...