limited hangout

She says the disclosures so far could be a “limited hangout,” which is a spy term used by Nixon's aides during the Watergate cover-up. Essentially, this refers to partial admissions meant to serve as a smokescreen to obscure something else. It's not, Wheeler posits, that everything we've heard about the ...

None of the archived reports specifically tied it to Agency funds until March 21, 1967 when TAF announced it in a limited hangout. A limited hangout, as aptly defined for the public by Victor Marchetti, is a technique used when the Agency “can no longer rely on a phony cover story to misinform the public, ...

Kushner's unsworn statement is what was known in the Watergate era as “a modified limited hangout,” the Nixonian term for a belated admission that seeks to distract attention from the most serious evidence of wrongdoing. Kushner will not testify under oath, which protects him from possible legal ...

During the Watergate scandal of the 1970s that brought down President Richard Nixon, adviser John Ehrlichman suggested the president respond to a round of damaging revelations with what he called a “modified limited hangout." This is the “strategy of mixing partial admissions with misinformation and ...

Calling out around the world; time to put on your made in Ecuador Panama hat and frantically start dancing to the ultimate limited hangout leak. OPINION: Vladimir Putin Fights the ... That's the essence of a limited hangout sold to public opinion as a serious corruption investigation. And that's where Western ...