There's no evidence of a dirty tricks campaign, a real Nixonian dirty tricks campaign.
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They've sent operatives to do all kinds of dirty tricks.
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Is Torrents Time pulling any dirty tricks on its users?
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Dirty tricks are one thing — bloody ones are quite another.
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And how do you react when you encounter underhanded, dirty tricks?
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There's some kind of dirty-tricks operation in play against us.
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Now Lucas's nemesis Taryn Grant is up to more dirty tricks.
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The state's primary has a history of dirty tricks by shadowy operatives.
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He&aposd done some dirty tricks in the elections in the past.
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The transcripts revealed how Nixon had used "dirty tricks" in his campaigns.
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IT HAS been a good few days for Russia's dirty-tricks squad.
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It is a frequent target of Russian President Vladimir Putin's dirty tricks.
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Yet despite being exposed, they continued to engage in other dirty tricks.
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Today's dirty tricks are high-volume, hard to trace and entirely digital.
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But the dirty tricks also heralded a broader transformation in international espionage.
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Cruz's campaign has been accused of playing dirty tricks in the past.
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The planned result of three years of political operations and dirty tricks.
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Moore's supporters were also accused of using their own social media dirty tricks.
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South Africa has a long and disturbing history of politically motivated dirty tricks.
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So, he&aposs conflating these two things, counterintelligence investigation and political dirty tricks.
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Wang instead criticized Taiwan for playing "dirty tricks" to manipulate Taipei-Washington relations.
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"I'm already trying to teach my children dirty tricks," he previously told PEOPLE.
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It had its own demagogues and dirty tricks, and drew its own complaints.
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Stone is a man who has 50 years of dirty tricks behind him.
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Will it return to the persecution and dirty tricks of the Hoover days?
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Observers are hoping the race will be contested without accusations of dirty tricks.
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Mr. Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign had a reputation for engaging in dirty tricks.
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He has played roles in many of his generation's political dirty-tricks scandals.
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So was Mr. Litvinenko's assassination the start of a new era of dirty tricks?
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"I'm already trying to teach my children dirty tricks," 56-year-old actor admitted.
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Mr Guaidó's backers have ways to help without resorting to force or dirty tricks.
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And not only that, they had a bunch of dirty tricks to do so.
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What are "dirty tricks," and why are they a threat to our election process?
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Related: 'Dirty Tricks' in South Carolina: Pro-Cruz Robocall Hits Trump Over Confederate Flag The Rubio campaign responded to Cruz's activities in South Carolina by sending out an email to their supporters warning them to be on the lookout for any dirty tricks.
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The moral of the amoral story: Frank and Claire are back to their dirty tricks.
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But the Duke had a few dirty tricks that would have shocked even Gorgeous George.
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Fillon has accused Socialist President Francois Hollande of waging a 'dirty tricks' war against him.
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Donald Trump keeps hiring people with records of dirty tricks, lies and threats of violence.
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" The report also noted that Russian cyberespionage often included "disinformation campaigns and political dirty tricks.
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Carson, and Donald Trump, have repeatedly accused Cruz of employing "dirty tricks" over the incident.
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The idea that I am constantly plotting dirty tricks against my political opponents is a misnomer.
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For example, just to pick one, you have dirty tricks not so much, comparatively, to this.
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Incumbent ISPs have a long history of using dirty tricks to try and derail these efforts.
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Mr Kabila, who has been in power for 18 years, is no stranger to dirty tricks.
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The ruling party used all manner of dirty tricks to pervert the vote, but still lost.
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No amount of dirty tricks can turn the tide of history or defeat a strong candidate.
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"He had me doing some dirty tricks I don't want to get into," Mr. Credico said.
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But the dirty tricks can also get more creative than just robocalls and TV attack ads.
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It's a dog-eared page out of the dirty-tricks playbook, updated for the Trump era.
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This is simply an extension on one of the oldest dirty tricks in the boxing book.
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London (CNN Business)Dirty tricks are as much a feature of elections as a campaign button.
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He was just the guy who broke enough rules and played enough dirty tricks to win.
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But now the cat's cradle of lies and dirty tricks had tripped up the putative dognapper.
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Such edicts are likely to fuel opposition accusations of intimidation and dirty tricks by the security forces.
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Some suspected a dirty-tricks ploy to make Iran look bad and prompt the war everyone feared.
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But without a doubt, Democrats will be up to the same old predictable dirty tricks and tactics.
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Who runs a campaign accused of dirty tricks, and tried to sabotage Ben Carson with false rumors?
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Yet however crazy real-life politics have become, the Underwoods' bag of dirty tricks still trumps them.
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And [his brother] Bobby Kennedy was probably smarter about dirty tricks in 1960 than Richard Nixon was.
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The CPP has used "dirty tricks" to jail opposition leaders and force others into exile, Robertson added.
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The bombshell report claims England, the U.S. and Australia were all victims of a coordinated dirty tricks campaign.
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And it&aposs because she lost that we&aposre now finding out more about her campaign dirty tricks.
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Or the competitors who expected a fair fight, but were subjected to illegal surveillance and dirty tricks instead.
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The GOP race hit South Carolina in a flurry of insults, negative ads and suggestions of dirty tricks.
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Last cycle, Newman's fight against a party apparatus was with the "Chicago Machine," infamous for its dirty tricks.
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The two sides clashed bitterly, trading insinuations of dirty tricks; ultimately, Mr. Yeger won by a wide margin.
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Robert Dole's staff was cut short when Stone's campaign dirty tricks were exposed during Congressional hearings in 1973.
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"The French can tell the difference between genuine scandals and political dirty tricks," Ms. Le Pen told reporters.
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The aim of these "dirty tricks" is to undermine the new government, says Mohammed Ali Fazan, another journalist.
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"We've already had dirty tricks in this campaign," he told CNN on Tuesday night after his New Hampshire victory.
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With the help of the Clintons, Trump's team has defined down appropriate behavior for opposition research and dirty tricks.
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Should Jim sign off on the election results if he knows that Tracy used dirty tricks in her campaign?
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But his comments do reveal something disturbing about how the internet has democratized the ability to do dirty tricks.
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Its spectacular tracks, colorful karts, and myriad dirty tricks make it a marquee multiplayer experience on Nintendo's hybrid console.
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They have focused mainstream attention on Russian dirty tricks, seeming domestic corruption and the Wild West of digital media.
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And I would note that Mr. Stone is a man who has 50 years of dirty tricks behind him.
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The heiress wins, but is called out for her dirty tricks by a ragged man with a cockney accent.
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Even without dirty tricks Mr Mnangagwa's party could potentially win the next election, given the fractious state of the opposition.
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Political dirty tricks that would be otherwise deemed reprehensible are just colorful displays of feistiness when executed on Jack's behalf.
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The extensive hacks of Hillary Clinton's campaign emails and a host of other dirty tricks have likewise been exhaustively chronicled.
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He focuses on four in particular: voter suppression, electoral incompetence, dirty tricks, and escalating rhetoric about "stolen" or "rigged" elections.
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Ola and Uber have burned through investors' money and clashed in legal battles over alleged dirty-tricks tactics and pricing.
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The indictments revealed Russia's use of an assortment of dirty tricks in heavily funded efforts to deceive the American public.
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"It's very disappointing that there really hasn't been an outcry because of the shameful gutter politics and dirty tricks," said Bell.
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"It was tricky at the end there with Lewis playing some dirty tricks," commented four-times champion Vettel over the radio.
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He was getting paid pretty handsomely by the Obama administration right around the same time he was running these dirty tricks.
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In the 22014s it conducted a dirty-tricks campaign against Quebec separatists, which included manufacturing evidence that separatists were acquiring explosives.
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Being on this committee can help me have a voice for my candidate and make sure the dirty tricks don't happen.
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Everyone knew that he was C.I.A., and that he combined an affable and artless personality with a talent for dirty tricks.
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Some of the climate-deniers used dirty tricks — hacking scientists' emails, inventing fake ethical scandals — to undermine public trust in scientists.
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But he continued to resurface at odd political moments, gaining even more of a reputation for being involved in dirty tricks.
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Labash's hilarious profile of dirty tricks master Roger Stone stands as a representative example of The Weekly Standard at its best.
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The allegations of hidden deals with organized crime also tend to be associated with accusations of lavish spending and dirty tricks.
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In one interview, Michael Moore called the investigation an example of "dirty tricks" by governments and corporations out to get Assange.
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Two bitter rivals, a clash of campaign styles, teams that loathe each other, allegations of dirty tricks, disputes about alternative facts.
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By the time it was over, Kennedy had won and Nixon's camp was quietly accusing the other side of dirty tricks.
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" Stone's expertise included "dirty tricks," Bannon said, "the kinds of things campaigns use when they've got to make up some ground.
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That makes dirty tricks like recent ads wrongly telling Clinton supporters that they could vote by text all the more dangerous.
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Billions occasionally feints toward making you think about income inequality, or the dirty tricks the rich sometimes play to keep getting richer.
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The state's primary, the "first-in-the-South" contest with a history of dirty tricks, follows a week later on February 20.
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When asked if someone was using "dirty tricks" in the election, about 85% believed that some candidate, campaign or political group was.
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They deteriorated further in the weeks leading up to the vote, as the two parties accused each other other of dirty tricks.
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I mean who doesn't want to see a baddie getting their comeuppance right after they pulled off one of their dirty tricks?
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"Senator Cruz is up to his dirty tricks again spreading false rumors and lies," said Joe Pounder, a spokesman for Mr. Rubio.
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A hugely expensive free-for-all, studded with celebrities (or what passes for celebrities in Washington) — with a whiff of dirty tricks.
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Turns out 9/11 is no reason to take a holiday from political dirty tricks, at least among North Carolina Republican legislators.
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It's an "and" not an "or" because the dirty tricks from foreign actors feed on the incompetence of our own election administrators.
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Basilio came across as the operatic prototype of a cynical, modern-day political operative whose repertory of dirty tricks has hardly dated.
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Supporters of right to try in the House should consider these patient-hostile provisions; instead they are resorting to dirty tricks again.
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In Washington, American politics has been embroiled since the 2016 election in investigations and bitter quarrels involving allegations of Russian dirty tricks.
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But that hasn't allayed fears among Democrats that the president will resort to online dirty tricks to win another White House term.
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A British undercover investigation secretly filmed Trump's election consultants describing how they use bribes, sex workers and other dirty tricks to entrap politicians.
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But Watergate, the only scandal to topple a U.S. president, definitelyhad money at its heart—along with a dizzying array of dirty tricks.
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To many outsiders the defamation claims, always vague, looked like part of a dirty-tricks campaign to discredit two free-thinking board members.
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His young party accused the PRI of vote buying and other dirty tricks, and may launch legal challenges in the weeks to come.
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In undercover video shot by Project Veritas, Foval boasts of having local operatives ready to execute campaign dirty tricks all over the country.
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Republican politicians tolerate dirty tricksters like Roger Stone, so they project the existence of dirty tricks of similar depravity onto the Democratic Party.
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Orange-throwing nobles, a rifle-wielding duchess, duck races and dirty tricks speed the movie through months of tension in the royal court.
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Clinton's campaign distanced itself from the videos and questioned their veracity, but Mr. Trump has pointed to them as proof of dirty tricks.
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While Trump calls for a redo of the caucuses, Carson has said Cruz's "dirty tricks" have only spurred him on in the campaign.
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Amid much national conversation about the need for more civility in politics, candidates on both sides have accused their opponents of dirty tricks.
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The council, which is closely aligned with Mr. Maduro, was accused of engaging in dirty tricks around the elections of governors on Oct.
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The most original charge here is that the Cruz campaign uses "dirty tricks" and "tried to sabotage Ben Carson with false rumors" in Iowa.
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The only thing that seemed to temporarily dampen their spirits was a mention of the recent deluge of "dirty tricks" from the Cruz campaign.
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When congressional oversight hearings highlighted secret surveillance programs and dirty tricks by the FBI and CIA, the government quietly shelved the entire warning system.
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The party was also accused of "dirty tricks" last week after publishing leaflets suggesting they were close to ousting Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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The governor has long said that he wants change, that he is as outraged by the dirty tricks in Albany as the public is.
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And then there's the Ukraine conflict and Russia's cyberwarfare and other dirty tricks launched against NATO's Central European members, such as the Baltic states.
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And instead of bemoaning the GOP's dirty tricks, liberals should encourage Republicans to make even more duplicitous primary interventions on behalf of "unelectable" candidates.
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Most notably, when Branson's airline was trying to establish itself in the 1990s, British Airways ran what became known as the "dirty tricks" campaign.
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He went on social media to ridicule the intern's mischievous allegations, accusing the opposition of cynically exploiting the child for its own dirty tricks.
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CNBC's Jim Cramer on Monday revealed "quick and dirty" tricks that investors can use to assess enterprise software stocks like a Wall Street expert.
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Russia denies the allegations, saying it is the victim of a politicized dirty tricks campaign designed to besmirch its reputation and curb its sporting success.
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The Chinese fundamentally think he is a businessman who wants to create jobs -- even if he's willing to play dirty tricks over things like Taiwan.
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The opposition bears no blame for the dirty tricks which, over several shameful decades, the government has used to hobble Mr Anwar and many others.
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The methods the trainer imparts are classic "dirty tricks", says a non-Honduran expert in election monitoring, who was given a summary of the tape.
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Roger Stone is a veteran Republican Party political operative dating back to the Nixon administration, when he was a leading perpetrator of "dirty tricks" politics.
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The Gulen movement is certainly capable of a wide range of dirty tricks – but a coup does not seem to be their kind of thing.
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But he had risen to the top through behind-the-scenes corruption—opponents were bribed, physically intimidated, or susceptible to any number of dirty tricks.
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Russian officials have said their country is the victim of a politicized dirty tricks campaign designed to besmirch its reputation and curb its sporting success.
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Mr. Mnangagwa "honed Zimbabwe's ever-watchful Central Intelligence Organization into an elite dirty tricks team feared throughout the land," Mr. Mbanga wrote in The Guardian.
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She then reeled off a list of dirty tricks she has seen in past elections, including an unannounced polling station in a sprawling local cemetery.
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And in 2016, Russian trolls showed American operatives how to supersize their basket of dirty tricks, barraging social media with all kinds of phony information.
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"In Hawaii, we're seeing some dirty tricks by the Ted Cruz campaign," Conant said during an appearance on MSNBC that touched on the CNN story.
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For more than a week, Facebook's critics have wondered if the company will face any consequences for the dirty tricks and deceptions detailed in a Nov.
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South Carolina is a state known for its political nastiness, with a long history of dirty tricks that wouldn't fly in other parts of the country.
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SOUTH AFRICA'S ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), is on the verge of tearing itself apart with "dirty tricks", says Gwede Mantashe, its secretary-general.
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Ted Cruz, who was responsible for the majority of the so-called "dirty tricks" reported in the past week, was in second place with 23 percent.
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Civic groups and NGOs say they are under siege, harassed by the authorities, subjected to mysterious dirty tricks and attacked by government politicians and loyalist media.
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That's not at all where the Texan, who's currently being blasted by multiple other candidates for his alleged "dirty tricks," hoped to be at this point.
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The reestablishment of full diplomatic relations in 2015 led many to hope that the two countries could move past the decades of dirty tricks and skullduggery.
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"The French can tell the difference between genuine scandals and political dirty tricks," Le Pen, who has previously denied any wrongdoing in the affair, told reporters.
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Facebook has been used by foreign powers and shady actors of all types to influence elections, even as the company employed dirty tricks to discredit critics.
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Stone, a veteran Republican consultant known for dirty tricks, led Trump's presidential exploratory committee when Trump was considering a run for the Reform Party's 313 nomination.
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It is not surprising that the Kremlin is using disinformation and other dirty tricks to sow confusion in Western countries and undermine faith in democratic systems.
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Ted Cruz fired his communications director on Monday, in a move that adds more turmoil to a campaign that has been under fire for dirty tricks.
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"We urge certain people in the US to respect basic facts, discard arrogance and prejudice, stop playing dirty tricks that meddle in Hong Kong affairs," he said.
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Ted Cruz, the darling of the right, has been tagged as "Lying Ted," a Nixonian figure whose dirty tricks cast doubt on the legitimacy of his campaign.
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Both men assumed office through political dirty tricks, whether the Watergate break-in in Nixon's case or the still murky details of the Russia scandal in Trump's.
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It was apparently first reported by the London-based writer and filmmaker Shane O'Sullivan in his book "Dirty Tricks: Nixon, Watergate, and the CIA," published last year.
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As we approach midterm elections this fall, thousands of eligible voters are inconvenienced or disenfranchised by legislative dirty tricks meant to deprive them of their legal rights.
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"Nixon's paranoia went up a great deal after he lost in 1960, partly because he felt the Kennedys had used dirty tricks to defeat him," said Thomas.
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Games are supposedly a series of interesting decisions, but one of the dirty tricks of social evolution is to obfuscate political decisions under the guise of progress.
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Rubio and his campaign immediately jumped on the story, accusing the Cruz campaign of more "dirty tricks" as the Republican candidates head into tonight's caucus in Nevada.
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The poster is in keeping with a campaign that has been rife with dirty tricks, false news stories, vicious personal attacks, conspiracy theories and perceived enemies all around.
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And when the stakes are higher, companies are more likely to use agencies that resort to dirty tricks — and the public ought to know about those tricks, too.
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It means being clear that there is an issue here — using dirty tricks to try to win an election — that goes beyond the interests of "sides," or should.
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Some American political experts fear that the Russian influence campaign of 2016 could become a dangerous model for stateside politics, with dirty tricks on social media becoming common.
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Irrespective of who the Democratic nominee is, President Trump will use all the power and dirty tricks at his disposal to remain in power for another four years.
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He has long cultivated the role of evil jester of American politics, from the Richard Nixon tattoo branded on his back to his relishing dirty tricks against opponents.
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Rivalry between Virgin Atlantic and BA dates back more than 20 years to the so-called dirty tricks affair, when Virgin accused BA of conducting a smear campaign.
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"And there seems to be some dirty tricks happening in Alabama meant to discredit The Washington Post's reporting on allegations involving Roy Moore and teenage girls," she continued.
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That could make Donald Jr. and others liable for all of the Russian dirty tricks that followed, including any Russian cybercrimes or other crimes targeting the Clinton campaign.
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This time around some supporters again fear that dirty tricks could be employed to keep him from office, even as authorities and outside observers say the possibility is remote.
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"We urge certain people in the US to respect basic facts, discard arrogance and prejudice, stop playing dirty tricks that meddle in Hong Kong affairs," said spokesman Geng Shuang.
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"Yes there will be dirty tricks but these campaigns will be smart enough to not have their fingerprints on them," said Joel Sawyer, a veteran South Carolina political strategist.
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Andrés Sepúlveda, a Colombian computer-hacker serving a ten-year jail sentence for espionage, told Bloomberg Businessweek that he spent years carrying out dirty tricks during Latin American elections.
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Her husband, ex-President Bill Clinton, sparked fresh headlines with an intemperate interview in March in which he charged that "Kremlin dirty tricks" helped to swing the 2016 election.
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Apple has accused Qualcomm of playing dirty tricks, including asserting a patent that had already been invalidated by international courts, and other patents that it had never before used.
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Russia has denied allegations of state-sponsored doping, saying it is the victim of a politicized dirty tricks campaign designed to besmirch its reputation and curb its sporting success.
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Democrats' patience for being told by the opposition party that we need to work together in the nation's interest, after years of obstruction and dirty tricks, is running thin.
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Any overt dirty tricks, however, risk bringing more international sanctions or torpedoing an already fragile, foreign-led mediation with the opposition that Maduro needs to improve his international image.
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But despite these efforts, Cruz's campaign has developed an unsavory reputation for using "dirty tricks" against his rivals, an association he is now taking more drastic steps to combat.
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Ben Carson does not appreciate the "dirty tricks" that Senator Ted Cruz's campaign employed before the Iowa caucuses, and he challenged Mr. Cruz on Wednesday to do something about it.
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Even if taken at face value, the memo still does not prove what Republicans claim, namely that the entire Russia investigation was born out of a Democratic dirty tricks campaign.
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" Related: 'Dirty Tricks' in South Carolina: Pro-Cruz Robocall Hits Trump Over Confederate Flag In a statement to VICE News, the Cruz campaign called the Rubio camp's allegations "completely false.
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" Bannon said he saw value in Stone because he recognized his expertise in "opposition research, dirty tricks, the things that campaigns use when they've got to make up some ground.
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"When you are this far behind, you try to use every tool in the toolbox," Mr. Bannon testified, including "opposition research and you know, dirty tricks," to make up ground.
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There's also the danger that Democrats open themselves up to dirty tricks by figures like Roger Stone and Steve Bannon, who, as Crooked Media's Brian Beutler noted, will weaponize accusations.
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Dogged by Mr. Tuck most of his political life, Nixon can be heard on Oval Office tapes enviously praising Tuck exploits over his own team's crude (and illegal) dirty tricks.
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The company bulldozed ahead of ride-hailing rivals through a mix of aggressive fundraising, dirty tricks and a take-no-prisoners attitude toward expansion in the United States and abroad.
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Mr. Putin and his former K.G.B. colleagues should know that, this time, we have a better sense of their dirty tricks, and how they have updated Zersetzung for the internet.
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Russian officials have accused WADA of shifting blame and said their country is the victim of a politicised dirty tricks campaign designed to besmirch its reputation and curb its sporting success.
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It should be noted that accusations of corruption have tarnished all three of the main candidates in the runup to the election, as well as allegations of dirty tricks during campaigning.
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Trump frequently accused his opponent, Clinton, of dirty tricks and his predecessor former President Obama of "rigging" the 2016 election in the weeks and months leading up to the November vote.
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" It also reserves criticism for Cruz, whom the paper believes promises "an era of simultaneous disorder and paralysis should he be elected to lead Washington" and questions his campaign's "dirty tricks.
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In the book, you talk about "dirty tricks" and "foreign interference" designed to erode confidence in the process, but this sort of mismanagement seems to undercut the need for foreign interference.
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Tuesday's winner in Florida, Annette Taddeo, was a victim of Russian dirty tricks in the 2016 campaign and told her story to my colleague Michael Barbaro in a podcast last year.
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With only days to go until the midterm elections, of course it's the time for candidates who fear they can't win fair and square to pull out all the dirty tricks.
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The Watergate scandal that felled Nixon is presented in a side-gallery filled with sombre black, red and grey panels bearing labels like "Dirty Tricks and Political Espionage" and "Obstruction of Justice".
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The hiring of Liddy was the culmination of a series of dirty tricks, espionage and governmental abuses of power that made the Nixon White House the most corrupt in modern US history.
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Donald Trump "outright cheated" during a golf outing with Oscar De La Hoya ... so says the boxer himself who claims Trump resorted to dirty tricks just to beat him on the links.
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And then at the end, so he gets the dirty -- he gets the dirty tricks and just as he&aposs trying to scrape back from the bottom, the White House weighs in.
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Nariman Dzhelalov, the deputy head of the Mejlis, calls it a "hybrid deportation"—a reference to Vladimir Putin's "hybrid war" of dirty tricks and disinformation when grabbing Crimea in the first place.
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Mr Sanders is among them; Mrs Clinton accuses him, among other dirty tricks, of portraying her as a "corrupt corporatist who couldn't be trusted…paving the way for Trump's "Crooked Hillary" campaign".
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Allegations of illegal collusion stemmed from undercover video shot by Project Veritas that captured DNC self-styled "undercover" operatives boasting of carrying out dirty tricks in coordination with the Clinton presidential campaign.
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Gudkov accuses his rivals of being behind the dirty tricks but is careful not to name names, apparently concerned this would give them an excuse to tie him up in legal actions.
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First I did a little research and found out that this kind of thing had happened before in New York City, where dirty tricks and politics go back a very long way.
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In his 2011 book, Mr. Sik described how the Gulenists had installed themselves in the bureaucracy and were engaged in a wide range of dirty tricks of this sort against their opponents.
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Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's former campaign manager, who earned millions lobbying for years on behalf of dictators around the world, "did not need lessons in dirty tricks from Russia," Ms. Lipman said.
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In the decade since, it bulldozed ahead of ride-hailing rivals through a mix of aggressive fundraising, dirty tricks and a take-no-prisoners attitude toward expansion in the United States and abroad.
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And the Jacobs letter, written by a former Uber employee, that details a vast network of hacking, spying, and dirty tricks by the ride-hail company in its relentless quest for global dominance.
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Then came the election campaign, in which they deteriorated further as each accused the other of dirty tricks (the SPÖ's campaign guru allegedly set up racist Facebook pages attacking Mr Kurz, for example).
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Falcon accused the government of buying votes and dirty tricks to boost turnout among poor voters most hurt by widespread food shortages and hyperinflation in what was once Latin America&aposs wealthiest nation.
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"The people went to the polls and voted for a new direction in Madison, not a repeat of the Scott Walker dirty tricks playbook," said Stephanie Bloomingdale, who heads the Wisconsin AFL-CIO.
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"The dirty tricks of trying to win through bureaucratic pencil-pushing what they can't win at the ballot box represents a fraud forewarned," he wrote on the website of human rights nonprofit IDL.
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The past few weeks have been the F.B.I.'s and the Justice Department's time in the barrel, to paraphrase Roger J. Stone Jr., a Trump ally and self-described Republican dirty tricks master.
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That has amplified Congressional calls for an independent bipartisan investigation into Russian dirty tricks and prompted President Barack Obama to expel 35 suspected Russian spies, denting early Russian optimism about a Trump presidency.
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Han has complained of "dirty tricks" being used to smear him as a puppet for China, especially revelations in Australian media from a self-proclaimed Chinese spy who claimed China has supported Han.
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Barket, the lawyer whom Wessel connected to Jacobus while posing as Meagan Lancaster, said he shares Jacobus' and Wilson's suspicion of political dirty tricks, and said that a criminal investigation is in order.
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So it is almost certainly only a matter of time before Americans try out the hack-and-leak technique as well, as any student of old-school campaign dirty tricks can tell you.
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Jane Mayer, who's a New Yorker writer, has just written a book about the Koch Brothers, and she describes in the book some dirty tricks mounted against her, paid for by powerful organizations.
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What they discovered in those documents was reference to an operation called Cointelpro, which was the J. Edgar Hoover dirty-tricks operation to not only spy on people but also to discredit them.
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Fillon, who says he is victim of a "dirty tricks" campaign, said in comments reported by Le Parisien newspaper that he would work to ensure France's institutions better protected the confidentiality of sensitive information.
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He was hired last August amid a wave of revelations and allegations about rampant sexual harassment in Uber&aposs workforce , a cover-up of a massive data breach , dirty tricks and stolen trade secrets .
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You want competition to be something where the better product wins, and the question is: is the defendant winning because they have a better product, or are they winning because they're using dirty tricks?
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According to The New York Times, dirty trickster Stone billed himself to Trump as a conduit to dirty tricks outfit WikiLeaks, and there's evidence of illicit communication between Stone and the Russia-aligned WikiLeaks.
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Opposition leaders blamed dirty tricks by the government, including the last-minute moving of many vote centers in opposition areas, along with abstention by supporters disillusioned at the failure of protests earlier this year.
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One of the most shocking moments of all came when CIA Director William Colby, who had assumed his position just two years earlier, admitted to the "dirty tricks" in which his agency had engaged.
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"Well before the American public became aware of the White House's dirty tricks, there were Republicans who quietly blocked Nixon's orders and provided an important, yet fragile, check on the imperial presidency," he writes.
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Tayler had only been CEO less than a month, stepping into the job in March when Alexander Nix was suspended after being caught on a hidden camera promising dirty tricks to the firm's clients.
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Bump in the road Under Kalanick's leadership, Uber bulldozed ahead of its rivals through a mix of aggressive fundraising, dirty tricks and a take-no-prisoners attitude toward expansion in the US and abroad.
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She went along but now resents it, and though they've agreed to do things amicably, she lawyers up, hiring a pit bull attorney delectably played by Laura Dern, and pulls some standard dirty tricks.
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The campaign is the second so-called false flag operation by Democrats to be discovered in that race — and the latest example of how dirty tricks on social media are creeping into American politics.
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A longtime GOP operative whose reputation for dirty tricks reaches all the way back to Richard Nixon's 1972 reelection campaign, Stone has been an on-and-off adviser to Trump since the mid-1980s.
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The plan almost flew under the radar, but eagle-eyed residents here are no strangers to the dirty tricks once used in the Jim Crow South to stop Black people from getting to the polls.
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There's no doubt that many of these conspiracies are, or were, real, and that elements in the Turkish military have always been willing to use dirty tricks, murder, terrorism, and repression to achieve their goals.
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Malaysian politicians from both government and opposition camps complained of "dirty tricks" after voting in a general election began on Wednesday, as non-stop spam calls to their mobile phones disrupted communications with party organizers.
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Polls had put the opposition far ahead, and anti-Maduro politicians have alleged a litany of dirty tricks including switching electoral centers to dangerous areas at the eleventh hour and gross abuse of state resources.
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Before the funding dried up, Gudkov thought he had an even chance of re-election to the 450-seat Duma, or lower house of parliament, on Sunday despite what he calls a dirty tricks campaign.
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"I openly admit that I did a lot of damage to the West, particularly to the United States, as a specialist in dirty tricks," Mr. Martin-Bittman told the NBC News series "Dateline" in 21985.
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A second, 12-page document sought to link Freedom From Facebook to Mr. Soros and to David Brock, a Democratic operative who is widely portrayed in conservative circles as a master of political dirty tricks.
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It functioned as a dirty-tricks shop for Donald J. Trump in 2016, which would have been the stuff of farce — the ultimate tabloid backs the ultimate tabloid candidate — if it hadn't accomplished its goal.
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In addition to showing how Facebook's leaders failed to deal forthrightly with the situation, the piece has numerous examples of what I can only call dirty tricks to hurt rival companies and deflect public attention.
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Today, the GOP relies primarily not on under-the-radar Election Day dirty tricks, but rather on facially neutral laws and regulations, such as voter ID, which tend to hit nonwhite and poor voters hardest.
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The sordid story of IRS corruption and political dirty tricks during the Obama years is widely known thanks to numerous documents and emails forced out of the government under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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Mitchell rejected these schemes as too expensive and extreme, but Liddy and others in this crowd went on to engage in a wide variety of dirty tricks during the 1972 campaign, including the Watergate break-in.
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This may be due less to his rivals' strengths than to problems with Mr. Cruz, whose campaign is becoming synonymous with dirty tricks and outright lies, which the candidate has repeatedly been forced to address publicly.
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Asked for examples of dirty tricks, Mahathir said his party had found instances of more than 70 people registered as voters from one house and several hundred people with suspiciously similar names on the voter roll.
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That is why retaliation and deterrence also matter—not, as in the cold war, through dirty tricks, but by linking American co-operation over, say, diplomatic missions, to Russia's conduct and, if need be, by sanctions.
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Even under the most innocent of circumstances, Trump and his senior aides would find themselves in the awkward position of having to contend with the role that dirty tricks played in their rise to political power.
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The Cruz Crew app got early credit for helping the senator from Texas rally grassroots supporters and claim an early win in the Iowa caucus (rival Donald Trump would later attribute the win to dirty tricks).
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"The sort of dirty tricks which we saw being tried out by Russia during the US elections are now being adopted across the board," Jacob Davey, the ISD's research manager, told the Mirror in a statement.
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While the extent of the dirty tricks Trump is willing to use may remain somewhat in question, comments he made immediately after pushing the election fraud conspiracy theory resolved doubts about whether he's up for them.
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Stone is a link between the Watergate storm, when he worked for President Richard Nixon's notorious dirty tricks gang, and the Russia intrigue -- potentially the biggest Washington scandal since the one that felled the 37th President.
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"For months, my campaign has survived the lies and dirty tricks from my opponents who profess to detest the games of the political class, but in reality are masters of it," he said in a statement.
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Regardless of the intent of the call, it further pushes Moore's selected conspiracy theory from the fever depths of Twitter into the public imagination and promotes skepticism the whole controversy is just a series of dirty tricks.
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Related: Ben Carson Is Still Running for President, Although It's Getting Harder to Tell Why The typically soft-spoken Carson grew angry after that, frequently calling out the Texas senator for playing "dirty tricks" on his campaign.
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And others were misunderstood by the press: The editorial attacking Ed Muskie's wife in 1972, which prompted him to get emotional and possibly cry, was only later discovered to be part of a Nixon dirty-tricks campaign.
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That could lead to voter suppression if a dirty tricks-wielding campaign sends emails from the official account saying that polling places have moved, election days changed, or groups of people are no longer registered to vote.
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That's because it would give presidents almost unlimited power to pervert foreign policy into dirty tricks aimed at boosting their political prospects by defining anything they do to stay in office as part of the national interest.
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Maduro's rivals say a mix of dirty tricks, like moving hundreds of voting centers in opposition areas at the last minute and including the names of opposition politicians who lost in primaries on ballots, worked against them.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - Germany's Nico Rosberg celebrated his first Formula One world championship on Sunday after finishing runner-up in a tense Abu Dhabi Grand Prix won by Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton amid accusations of 'dirty tricks'.
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Cruz, whose campaign is beset by allegations of dirty tricks, could score a home-state win in Texas on Super Tuesday making it less likely that he leaves before the next big set of primaries on March 15.
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The project is linked to the GCHQ unit called the Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group or JTRIG, whose mission is to use "dirty tricks" to "destroy, deny, degrade [and] disrupt" enemies by "discrediting" them, according to leaked documents.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian politicians from both government and opposition camps complained of "dirty tricks" after voting in a general election began on Wednesday, as non-stop spam calls to their mobile phones disrupted communications with party organizers.
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Publicis Media CEO Steve King told CNBC that Facebook has experienced an erosion of trust after allegations that right-wing consulting firm Cambridge Analytica used millions of users' Facebook data for fake news and other political dirty tricks.
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Some of the men who have been elected president have been unscrupulous in certain areas — infidelity, lying, dirty tricks, financial misdeeds — but we've never before had the full-spectrum corruption we see in the life of Donald Trump.
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Bernstein has long been an adamant critic of Trump, and he has compared the campaign to drum up dirt on a domestic rival — which got Trump impeached — to the "dirty tricks" that resulted in Nixon&aposs impeachment investigation.
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This effort ought to include a full-court press of dirty tricks, coercion, heavy-handed threats and even direct action, all covert and deniable, against Kim's financial wizards who handle the finances, dispense the narcotics and hijack Bitcoins.
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Related: 'Dirty Tricks' in South Carolina: Pro-Cruz Robocall Hits Trump Over Confederate Flag Even with the GOP base rallying around Rubio, there's a big question that still remains: Can he take on the unstoppable force that is Trump?
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But any basic understanding of human psychology would lead you to think of comping as a solitary, fiercely individualistic enterprise—swivel-eyed compers hiding answers from rivals and using dirty tricks to ensure a maximum chance of them winning.
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"I can promise all Australians that we will dedicate our efforts to ensuring that the state of new parliament is resolved without division or rancor," Turnbull, who accused Labor of waging a dirty tricks campaign, told reporters in Sydney.
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In the middle of the Watergate scandal, Stone, who engaged in dirty tricks during Richard Nixon's 1972 campaign, was discovered to have hired a Republican operative to infiltrate the George McGovern campaign and was subsequently fired from his job.
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Both McCain and George W. Bush discuss their bruising 2000 primary battle without rancor -- despite the dirty tricks that took place -- just as Barack Obama lauds McCain for resisting the temptation and pressure to inject race into their campaign.
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Stone has had a reputation for political shenanigans since he was a 2448-year-old volunteer carrying out dirty tricks to embarrass Richard Nixon's 1972 Republican primary opponent — something that earned Stone a minor role in the Watergate hearings.
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Trump in many respects got the national security advisor he wanted in 2017 in retired Lieutenant General Michael Flynn, a loon whose dirty tricks helped whip the Trump base and achieve little else, other than his own federal prosecution.
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Stone has had a reputation for political shenanigans since he was a 19-year-old volunteer carrying out dirty tricks to embarrass Richard Nixon's 1972 Republican primary opponent — something that earned Stone a minor role in the Watergate hearings.
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The company was further pushed into the spotlight on Tuesday when a video surfaced in which Nix was surreptitiously filmed discussing the use of bribes, prostitutes and other dirty tricks in an effort to get ahead in political elections.
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How ethical are their big-issue beliefs, from your perspective, and what methods (honesty, lies, insults, dirty tricks, negotiation, transparency, empty promises or promises plus a plan to pay for them) would they likely try in order to accomplish their goals?
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Days after Wylie's story first made headlines, Britain's Channel 4 News began airing a series of devastating undercover videos that showed the firm's once sought-after CEO, Alexander Nix, discussing using dirty tricks like bribery and blackmail on behalf of clients.
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It should be alarming to Republican strategists that the outgoing Democratic president has a better handle on what's happened to their party than GOP politicians and conservative intellectuals—many of whom blame Trump's rise on the media, or liberal dirty tricks.
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The report was released amid a costly trade war between Washington and Beijing, which has seen President Donald Trump and other U.S. officials accuse the Chinese of using students as spies, stealing intellectual property and a range of other dirty tricks.
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The televised raid looked like one designed to apprehend a terrorist rather than the pajama-clad 22018-year-old Trump campaign advisor renowned for his "dirty tricks" approach to presidential campaigns and the large Richard Nixon tattoo adorning his back.
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Last year, co-founder Travis Kalanick was pushed out as CEO as Uber faced accusations including a workplace culture of sexism and sexual harassment, as well as a cover-up of a massive data breach, dirty tricks and stolen trade secrets.
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And that opened it up to not just one incident, and it turned out that, of course, Watergate had all these components to it — of dirty tricks, fund-raising, lying, cover-up, denials that were put forth with great passion.
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"What you have seen in this room over the past two weeks is a show trial, the planned result of three years of political operations and dirty tricks, campaigns waged against this president," Nunes said near the end of the hearing.
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Biss has replied in a court filing that the vulgarity in the complaint is a frequently used term for political dirty tricks and that Halper has a history of such tricks dating back to the Reagan presidential campaign in 1980.
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"Taylor is still a relatively undefined freshman, and the 'dirty tricks' that have dominated news of the race for the past few weeks could help Democrats chip away at his image as a squeaky-clean Navy SEAL," Cook's Dave Wasserman wrote.
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The standoff also has potentially constitutional implications in the decision of the newly elected National Assembly to swear in three opposition deputies whose electoral victories were suspended by a supreme court decision associated with allegations that they won their seats through dirty tricks.
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Bart's nemesis Sideshow Bob is a charismatic former TV star who becomes the Republican candidate for mayor and then uses optics and dirty tricks to steal the election from Quimby and wreak vengeance on those who opposed him (mainly, the Simpsons family).
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"Unless voters don't care about these issues or believe that this is simply political dirty tricks by releasing the videos now, Trump is going to have to pull a rabbit out of his hat in order to turn things around," Bonjean said.
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Just as 2017 saw the professionalization of all the dirty tricks and tactics learned in 2016 election, there's reason to believe this year was yet another prelude — proof of concept for ideas and behaviors that will be perfected in the year to come.
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Amazon's automated system, driven by machine learning algorithms, often flags non-violations, creating "false positives," especially when there are dirty tricks involved like a competitor trying to take down a higher-ranked seller, according to Jerry Kavesh, an Amazon seller and consultant.
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Writing on the Arena Ventures company blog, a writer chronicled the back and forth between HONK and triple A on a number of fronts — including the venerable roadside assistance company's attempts to adopt some of Uber's "dirty tricks" of ride-hailing and canceling.
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Even before the DNC break-in, Nixon, his team of "White House plumbers" tasked with performing dirty tricks, and employees of the Committee for the Reelection of the President (CRP) were illegally targeting Democratic candidates and other individuals deemed threats to the president.
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Its Marketplace platform, where third-party sellers can list products, has long been rife with accusations of one-sided contracts, disputes over advertising policies, and a ruthless competitive environment allegedly plagued by dirty tricks and ruled over by Amazon with an iron fist.
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"This is how phony and deceitful the Cruz campaign has become," Rubio's campaign advisor Todd Harris told reporters on Thursday, before the campaign sent out an email out to supporters warning them to be aware of any "dirty tricks" from Cruz's side.
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Election day itself included several reported incidents of dirty tricks, such as the arrest of a mayor who was allegedly caught buying votes for her husband in Veracruz, and an acid attack on a staff worker at a polling station in Durango.
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They co-anchored PBS telecasts of the Senate Watergate hearings, investigating the break-in by Republican operatives at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, an episode that set off a political dirty-tricks scandal that led to the downfall of Richard M. Nixon's presidency.
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And something in the same thing seems to be happening here, where Biden — who Trump and his people said they fear the most in terms of being an opponent — has been an object of these perhaps dirty tricks and abuses of power.
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For the past year we've been harangued with breathless claims that the president and his associates had struck a corrupt bargain with "the Russians" but so far the only evidence of an American-Russian alliance in political dirty tricks points to the Democrats.
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Meantime, many Democrats shrugged, figuring that dirty tricks were part and parcel of local politics, they were hard to prove, and the board of elections would never go so far as to throw out the vote count, which is pretty much unheard-of.
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But over the weekend, it was Democrats who displayed that type of chaos at the Nevada state convention, in an episode illustrates the current state of the Democratic primary — one mired by allegations, mostly from Bernie Sanders supporters, of misdeeds and dirty tricks.
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London (Reuters) - A hard-drinking American posing as a correspondent while up to dirty tricks and a beautiful blonde trying to make her name in besieged Madrid during the Spanish Civil War are the main characters of Ernest Hemingway's only play, "The Fifth Column".
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There is now an abundance of evidence that Russians engaged in a series of dirty tricks, from hacks into the Democratic National Committee emails that revealed embarrassing information to the distribution of fake news that spread vast amounts of false information to the electorate.
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The toolkit doesn't exploit software vulnerabilities to do its dirty tricks—the way most malware does—but instead relies on exploiting four communication protocols or standards that are used with industrial control systems in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia, according to the researchers.
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Ramsey Bolton has taken up the "Most Hated Man in Westeros" title since Joffrey kicked the bucket in Season 3, and while we all were certainly hoping for his death during this fight, everyone recognized he'd have some final dirty tricks before his curtain fell.
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The irony, missed in much the reporting, is that whether she was part of some Russian "active measures," dirty-tricks campaign, or merely a sharp opportunist who knew the best way to get an audience with the Trump team, the Kremlin gains, either way.
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But the night was bookended by two difficult moments, both related to the controversy over whether his campaign engaged in dirty tricks on the day of the Iowa caucuses by telling caucusgoers that Dr. Ben Carson was on the brink of ending his campaign.
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In zeroing in on the problems of the report, he cagily called attention to the fact that the only on-the-record source is Roger Stone, Jr., a former Trump adviser who has been a notorious practitioner of dirty-tricks politics since the Nixon administration.
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Senator Ted Cruz is under fire from Senator Marco Rubio's campaign, which accuses him and his campaign of employing more "dirty tricks" ahead of the Republican caucuses in Hawaii on Tuesday and spreading false rumors that Mr. Rubio is dropping out of the race.
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That Watergate burglary and related "dirty tricks," such as releasing mice at a Democratic press conference and paying a woman to strip naked and shout her love for a Democratic candidate, nauseated Americans — and impelled some of us kids at the time to pursue journalism.
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As Betty Medsger described in her book The Burglary, Cointelpro was only brought to an end after a group of private citizens broke into the FBI offices in Media, Pennsylvania, in 1971, and seized FBI files that began to expose the agency's dirty tricks.
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If Monday is any indication, what this means in practice is that the Democrat running against Trump will not only have to overcome the power of incumbency to ultimately be sworn into office, but also misinformation, dirty tricks, and perhaps even last-ditch conspiracy theories.
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The same kinds of digital dirty tricks used to interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election and beyond are now up for sale on underground Russian forums for as little as a few thousand dollars, according to a new report from an internet security company.
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Senator Ron Wyden, a Democrat of Oregon, who has repeatedly pressed the FCC for answers about potential malfeasance during the net neutrality process, said it was clear that "dirty tricks" had been used, including identity theft, to generate millions of fake comments ascribed to real Americans.
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"This whipping up of emotions regarding 'Russian hackers' is used in the U.S. election campaign, and the current U.S. administration, taking part in this fight, is not averse to using dirty tricks," Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said on Saturday in comments on the ministry's website.
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"Explaining to shareholders why the guys you hired ended up arrested in Romania, or getting caught in the New Yorker pulling dirty tricks on rape victims isn't exactly the conversation most publicly traded company executives want to have with their board," said a security firm CEO.
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Apple refused to provide the usual burnt offerings to the Angry God of ARPU and proved to the carriers that he could be fed without loading up phones with lots of garbage apps and dirty tricks that made people pay for services they weren't even using.
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All I've ever heard about models is that they all live together in big model apartments, where they bitch about one other, judge one another's eating habits, and pull dirty tricks to fuck with one another's chances at castings—like putting hot pepper in a roommate's pillowcase.
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In her Post article, Jamieson wrote that it was "hard to know" if Russian propaganda and dirty tricks—including the steady release of hacked e-mails, starting with Democratic National Committee correspondence that was leaked just before the Party's convention—had made a decisive difference in 2016.
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"It was clear in the past that they were making dirty tricks; everything is crystal clear now," Tebas said of City and P.S.G., three days after the surfacing of leaked documents that appeared to confirm his long-held complaints the clubs had manipulated financial control measures.
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So instead of using it as a teachable moment -- talking about dirty tricks, the need to think differently and let everyone inside the tent, and embracing the unexpected faces of conservatism -- Cruz may simply have ended up dissing potential voters in the form of libertarians (and consumers of porn).
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The New York Times published a jaw-dropping report Wednesday that laid out how the company sought to cover up knowledge of Russian meddling and discredit its critics; the paper said COO Sheryl Sandberg oversaw a campaign of dirty tricks while CEO Mark Zuckerberg ignored problems or deflected responsibility.
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But the real danger that the Mueller report reveals is not of a president who knowingly or unknowingly let a hostile power do dirty tricks on his behalf, but of a president who refuses to see that he has been used to damage American democracy and national security.
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While Trump isn't facing a significant primary challenge in the state, he and his campaign deployed a number of dirty tricks designed to disrupt Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary — including holding his rally ahead of the primary to depress turnout, a barrage of disinformation, and straight-up physical intimidation.
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I don't think they're minor but they're more regulatory, the greyballing thing, the thing with Apple, the things where they're geofencing Apple, the tricks around regulation, the rivalry with Lyft, the kind of dirty tricks, whatever that's called, some frat boy that invented whatever they're doing to Lyft.
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A CIA agent explicitly says, "He's one of ours," of the American-bred and raised Killmonger (who nevertheless has Wakandan heritage), and his plan to arm potential insurgents the world over to destabilize regimes he doesn't like and then wash his hands of the chaos is vintage American dirty tricks.
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One of the Clinton advisers said Mr. Clinton feared that her primary opponent, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, would commit voter fraud in the Iowa caucuses by busing college students into the state, and urged the campaign to divert valuable energy away from organizing and onto defense against dirty tricks.
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Cohn, a top aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy, was Mr. Trump's personal lawyer and fixer throughout the 1970s, a man with a reputation for pushing legal limits and employing all manner of dirty tricks to protect his client; he ran afoul of the law himself, resulting in his disbarment in 1986.
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WASHINGTON — For nearly 20163 years, Roger J. Stone Jr. taunted the political gods of fate, unleashing a torrent of dirty tricks on behalf of President Trump and his other well-connected clients and daring his adversaries to come after him, certain that the pursuit would make him richer and famous.
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"I've been in Washington for 35 years — and by way of disclosure I worked in a Republican White House, I worked for [Ronald] Reagan when I was in my 20s — what you see sometimes is when Democrats are aggressive it's community organizing when Republicans do it, it's dirty tricks," he said.
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The former Trump campaign chairman testified at the trial of a longtime Trump adviser, Roger J. Stone Jr. WASHINGTON — A former chairman of Donald J. Trump's 2016 campaign painted a portrait on Friday of a desperate organization lagging far behind Hillary Clinton and ready to try any method, including "dirty tricks," to win.
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For many Americans, however, the deeds of Mr. Ruckelshaus's varied career were all but eclipsed by his role in the events of a single night in the autumn of 1973, as the political dirty tricks and cover-up conspiracies of the Watergate scandal closed in on his boss, the beleaguered President Nixon.
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Le Pen, 48, who has denied any wrongdoing and says she is the victim of "political dirty tricks", is set to come first in the first round of an election for president on April 23 but lose in the May 7 runoff to either independent Emmanuel Macron or conservative Francois Fillon, according to opinion polls.
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Setting aside the question of whether Trump colluded with Russia, or whether collusion is illegal, the subtext of Trump's position on the election interference—that we should all forget about the crimes the hackers committed and move forward—is that he views anyone harmed by the dirty tricks that got him elected as collateral damage.
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A "dirty tricks" campaign in the 2215s aimed at the loudest critic of its position at Heathrow, Virgin Atlantic, ended with its then boss, Sir Richard Branson, winning a libel action against BA. When airlines were state-owned companies it served the national interest to maintain connections with the world through a flag-carrying monopolist.
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As the F.B.I. and congressional committees investigate contacts that associates of Mr. Trump had with Russian officials and business figures, the president argued that he was the victim of dirty tricks and that, if anything, it was associates of his defeated opponent, Hillary Clinton, who were doing the bidding of Vladimir V. Putin's Russia.
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And Trump has prepared an echo chamber network ready to spread rumors, which runs from the dirty tricks operative Roger Stone (who is an unofficial hatchet man for the campaign), to the radio host Alex Jones (whose show, Infowars, Trump has appeared on), to the National Enquirer (whose anti-Ted Cruz stories were reportedly engineered by Stone).
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These theories all tell the same larger narrative: That the world is secretly run by a nefarious cabal of globalists (who just happen to be Jewish), and that they employ an endless catalog of dirty tricks and "false flags" to ensure the world doesn't know about their manipulations, the whole point of which ultimately is the enslavement of mankind.
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Reading how the Sackler family devised recipes and dirty tricks to keep millions of people, rich and poor , smart and dumb, sick and well, respectable and not, coming back for more, better recipes of opiates, tricky and evil ways of keeping us hooked further and further , the whole country burning into this crises together now.. and not ONE.
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On Wednesday, the New York Times reported that as critics ramped up a campaign charging that Facebook's aggressive international expansion efforts led it to ignore numerous incidents in which it was "exploited to disrupt elections, broadcast viral propaganda and inspire deadly campaigns of hate around the globe," the company sought to discredit those critics using a variety of dirty tricks.
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The news comes as Cambridge and its British counterpart, SCL, face a barrage of questions over how their companies managed 50 million Facebook users' data, and also whether Nix and other executives use dirty tricks like extortion and fake news on behalf of their clients, as they appear to discuss freely in a recent undercover video filmed by British news network Channel 4 News.
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An uncomfortable pair of stories for the White House: "Russia's dirty tricks ... And why the West's response is inadequate" — The Economist cover editorial "A Russian oligarch [who was indicted by Mueller last week and is] believed to control the Russian mercenaries who attacked U.S. troops and their allies in Syria this month was in close touch with Kremlin ... in the days and weeks before and after the assault," according to the Washington Post.
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President Nixon obstructed justice from the Oval Office, used the Internal Revenue Service to go after his political enemies, launched an illegal war in Cambodia, waged dirty tricks against his opponents, kept an "enemies list," was recorded in the Oval Office describing Jews as "aggressive, abrasive and obnoxious" and Italians as not having their "heads screwed on tight," had articles of impeachment against him approved by the House Judiciary Committee, and left a permanent stain on American democracy.
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Chuck Colson—Richard Nixon's "dirty tricks" man, one of the few men to serve time for Watergate and who emerged born-again and devoted to prison ministry—and Gloria Steinem—the highly visible women's rights leader and author, who began her writing career going undercover at a Playboy Club in the 1960s and who regards sex work as "the equivalent of commercial rape"—did not end up on the "same side" of the trafficking fight by coincidence.
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And there are," Bernstein told me, "in the following ways: Watergate was an attempt by Richard Nixon to undermine the democratic electoral process in the United States, our basis of democracy, the electoral system, by trying through political espionage and sabotage to manipulate the opposition party into nominating through political dirty tricks and misinformation its weakest candidate, George McGovern, instead of its strongest candidate who Nixon didn't want to run against, who was Senator Edmund Muskie.
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Additional Reading • Roger Stone's Dirty Tricks Put Him Where He's Always Wanted to Be: Center Stage • Everyone Who's Been Charged in Investigations Related to the 2016 Election • 5 Times the Trump Administration Has Been Tougher Than Trump on Russia • Huge Trove of Leaked Russian Documents Is Published by Transparency Advocates Senator Kamala Harris, the California Democrat and former prosecutor who is the second black woman to serve in the Senate, joined the presidential race on Monday.
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Conservatives used to believe this, just as they used to believe that the branches of government were coequal; that political dirty tricks should never be normalized; that embattled allies must not be enlisted in such tricks; that, as Judge Laurence Silberman once said, "The most heinous act in which a democratic government can engage is to use its law enforcement machinery for political ends"; that innocence isn't established by the failure to get away with the intended crime; and that acquittal isn't vindication.
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The baby-boom prediction stood out in an election campaign that has been overshadowed by scandals and concerns, including fears of Russian interference in the vote; accusations that the opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has failed to tackle the scourge of anti-Semitism in his Labour Party; claims about dirty tricks by Mr. Johnson's party; and Labour's unveiling of leaked documents purporting to show that the National Health Service would be up for discussion in a post-Brexit British-American trade deal, even though Mr. Johnson has vowed that it would not.
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"We can blame Francois Hollande for a lot of things - and I have on some of his economic policy choices - but if there is one thing I don't think he is capable of, because it doesn't correspond with the way he does things, then it's creating a dirty tricks cabinet," Hamon told BFM TV. With Le Pen also being pursued by the French judiciary over use of European Parliament funds to pay staff, Macron, who says he will transcend the Left-Right political divide in favor of cross-partisan government, has risen to the front in the polls.
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Nobody comes out of the revelations well: not Infantino, craven and crawling; not UEFA, willing to prosecute the minnows while the sharks swim free; not the clubs, led by Bayern Munich, who talked of leaving not only UEFA but FIFA itself in search of more money; not Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga, who has called for those guilty of "dirty tricks" to be punished, which would coincidentally help several of the teams in his competition; not the clubs or organizations who should be righteously angry at flagrant rule breaches but who have maintained the silence of the complicit; and certainly not City — or, for that matter, Paris Saint-Germain — who signed up to a set of rules and promptly searched for ways to break them.
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And, as it turns out, the investigation she has set up makes intuitive sense to both observers and detectives because they know it so well from TV. The Law & Order franchise has shaped Americans' understanding of the law to such an extent that the actual legal system can sometimes seem discomfitingly unreal, because it is so little like the version we know from television: the one where prosecutors are incorruptible crusaders for justice, defense attorneys are conscienceless sophists, and trials take place in gleaming edifices of dark wood and marble—and where, perhaps most crucially, the viewer's own belief in the defendant's guilt can allow them to cheer for all sorts of systemic injustices and dirty tricks, because that's how you have to play the game, sometimes, if you just know you have the right guy.
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Richard Branson is born in London to parents Eve and Edward Leaves high school following a row with his headmaster over Student magazine The Virgin brand is born with a mail order record company Branson buys Necker Island for $180,20 Branson is bumped off a flight to the British Virgin Islands so charters his own plane, selling seats for $39 Virgin Atlantic's first plane flies from London to New York Virgin Holidays launches Branson's boat, the Virgin Atlantic Challenger II, breaks the world record for the fastest Atlantic crossing The group sells Virgin Records to EMI, for a reported $1 billion Virgin Atlantic wins libel damages from British Airways for the "dirty tricks" campaign Virgin Cola is launched Launches Virgin Money in the U.K. Virgin Trains wins a 15-year rail franchise in the U.K. Virgin Mobile launches in the U.K. and Branson is knighted.
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