Word: smokescreening
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Although the motion was quickly approved thanks to the government's wide majority, some opposition voices cast doubt on the conspiracy theory. Maria Estenssoro of the Civic Coalition said that "ranting at the empire is just a smokescreen. The problem isn't a trash operation from the U.S., the problem is the trash campaigns at home." Civic Coalition party leader Elisa Carrio, Fernandez's rival in October's presidential elections, said that "the United States is not responsible for the crimes of corruption committed by the governments of Venzuela and Argentina...
...does the Bush Administration work so hard to deny these detainees justice? Perhaps because habeas corpus proceedings could shatter the smokescreen they have built around the use of torture in CIA prisons. A Justice Department memo released last November spelled this out clearly: Terrorism suspects would be denied the right to meet with an attorney for fear that they might describe the methods of interrogation that had been used against them. How clever of our leaders, killing two birds with one stone: using an abrogation of one right to conceal the violation of another...
...It’s a smokescreen, so people will not see the really terrible things they do on their own turf,” he said. “We need to understand that the things we control are the things...
...aftermath of 9/11, Germany ordered its nuclear power industry to devise a defense against aerial attacks. The industry responded with a smokescreen--literally. Germany's 18 nuclear power plants were to be protected by fog machines that would obscure the plants from incoming aircraft. The plan was sent for revisions, however, after the Germans realized that in the event of a collision, the smokescreen would confound rescue workers...
...While the defense tried to argue that the drugs caused him to become “intoxicated” and act in a way he otherwise never would have, the jury rejected this notion and sided with the prosecution’s argument that the Zoloft defense was a smokescreen and that the boy’s intense anger promulgated his actions. The Pittman case would have immediately been thrown out a few years ago, but recent developments have catapulted this case and others like it to the national stage...