Word: ploy
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...different scandal. On Jan. 25, O'Keefe and three associates were arrested by the FBI for coordinating a plan in which two of the men, Joseph Basel and Robert Flanagan, entered the New Orleans office of Democratic U.S. Senator Mary Landrieu and posed as telephone repairmen in a ploy to install wiretaps. The accused are charged with entering federal property under false pretenses with the intent to commit a felony. If convicted, they face up to 10 years in jail...
Steve Andreasen, a former director for arms control on the National Security Council, says that Putin's comments were likely a negotiating ploy and that Russia will probably raise its continuing concern about missile defense in later talks. "They are making clear that further reductions in offensive weapons cannot take place divorced from the issue of missile defense - a long-standing Russian position," he says...