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"unwitting" Definitions
  1. not aware of what you are doing or of the situation you are involved in

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"Michael, the only unwitting element that I'm most concerned about is the unwitting media and the unwitting members of Congress that really took on this dodgy dossier and actually read it in the congressional record," he said.
It found end runs around privacy regulations, enabling companies from generally aboveboard Netflix to shady right-wing Cambridge Analytica to harvest and exploit data from unwitting users and their even more unwitting friends.
That made him the unwitting embodiment of the 'Moneyball' ethic.
Critics, he reminds himself, are the unwitting mouthpieces of Resistance.
Coke had played an unwitting role in inspiring the brand.
If it was unwitting, it would be pathetic and dangerous.
But Weston also describes America's unwitting connivance with its enemies.
Critics say that fosters rights infringement, both conscious and unwitting.
And many of Baird's unwitting beneficiaries have also forgotten the
At first, an unwitting US government did not believe CNN.
This is exactly where attackers prey on the unwitting masses.
But finding residue before it poisons unwitting victims is the problem.
Lawmakers look like unwitting enablers in the eyes of some experts.
These included "unwitting members, volunteers, and supporters of the Trump campaign".
Yet, unlike his unwitting targets, Weinstein already had his lines memorized.
Facebook is not alone in providing unwitting marketing space for opioids.
Yael: Elliot is actually a really good unwitting surrogate older brother.
Unwitting consumers have found themselves receiving shoddy or even dangerous items.
The effect was once so convincing that unwitting firefighters were called.
Unwitting migrants are tricked into lives of bondage aboard fishing vessels.
As always, Zardulu's work requires the collaboration of unwitting news organizations.
So they — we — became part of an unwitting conspiracy of inaction.
He added that American targets were often unwitting in such efforts.
Who was witting, unwitting in that conspiracy, we don't know yet.
Tina Stallard/Hulton Archive/Getty This could also lead to unwitting parenthood.
The female employees are the unwitting subjects of a wild social experiment.
You were an unwitting enabler of virtual animal abuse — you sick bastard.
Cole is simply an unwitting or simply terribly naïve participant in this.
Rules Do Not Apply is a monument to obliviousness, an unwitting testament
The troll group even ran elaborate schemes that involved recruiting unwitting Americans.
I'll spare the reader the rant our unwitting real estate agent endured.
But one unwitting man—a damn fool, if you ask us—did.
You become potentially an unwitting part of something that's hateful and damaging.
Grammy winners, a fitness app's unwitting sabotage and a class in happiness.
She was an unwitting pioneer as the country's treasurer, her daughter said.
The most remarkable aspect of this movie is its perhaps unwitting gentleness.
Far more common are what the Haggler would classify as Unwitting Incompetents.
In this story, philanthropic giving is cast as a potentially unwitting accomplice.
To viewers at home, Streep became the unwitting star of the match.
It makes them unwitting recruits to a political battle they didn't choose.
If Perry was an unwitting celebrity, he was also an accidental fashionista.
Issuers are getting rich and unwitting investors are buying tokens of questionable value.
In it, Morrell accuses Donald Trump of being an "unwitting agent" of Russia.
His characters interact with unwitting volunteers, offering a twisted commentary on topical issues.
Some Guatemalans think he and Mr Browder are unwitting pawns of CICIG's enemies.
Unlike Truth or Dare, it recruits unwitting or unwilling participants to take part.
Samsung's unwitting choice of bad batteries could happen to any company, including Apple.
Additionally, the Afghan government is an unwitting source of strength for the Taliban.
If pollen makes you sneeze, you're an unwitting participant in a plant threesome.
The unwitting buyer is unlikely to see a dime of this money again.
" He writes that Trump has become "an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.
Many of us have become unwitting hummingbirds, tweeting as fast as we can.
At the highest levels, everyone practices a kind of obscurantism, unwitting or otherwise.
They can become collaborators, unwitting or otherwise, just as Hollywood tycoons once were.
If this is Ganondorf, was he a willing participant or an unwitting victim?
For an expat, an unwitting cultural ambassador, there are two battles to fight.
It almost seems as if the aliens do their unwitting hosts a favor.
The pesticide, chlorpyrifos, was the same one ingested years earlier by unwitting Nebraskans.
Should I have waited, potentially infecting an unwitting acquaintance or their loved one?
Under this scenario, Mr. Manafort was an unwitting double agent for Mr. Mueller.
Is Larry harmed by being the unwitting star of an animal reality show?
I was the unwitting keeper of a noni tree, and I was morbidly curious.
As a result, the viewer becomes an unwitting, even unwilling extension of the work.
Check out the vid ... she's clearly pissed at Dani for mocking an unwitting woman.
Cambridge Analytica may have had data from more unwitting Facebook users than originally thought.
There is a big difference between being an unwitting pawn and a willing participant.
It also successfully co-opted small groups of unwitting Trump supporters and African Americans.
In Mitnick's, women appear primarily in anecdotes and always as unwitting, jealous or angry.
Sending an unwitting message to Mullin, he said, "A New York kid at that."
Defendants allegedly communicated with 'unwitting' Trump campaign associates The indictment contains the bombshell allegation that some of the defendants through false American identities communicated with "unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign" and other political activists in order to coordinate their political efforts.
Nor something more prosaic, such as their unwitting participation in a new feature test group.
An enterprising prankster would give the unwitting victim a letter to deliver to someone else.
The stories tend to be exaggerated and uncritical, which can put unwitting readers at risk.
And those seven Brown students will always be an unwitting part of Kardashian family lore.
I went online and discovered I had become the unwitting poster child for racist advertising.
Like any good tech company, Soylent is innovating and punting new products at unwitting consumers.
So began the war on fat, in which Atwater's calorie calculations were an unwitting ally.
While it's most certainly unwitting on Trump's part, the same cannot be said of ISIS.
This group has become an unwitting support system for me, and a touchstone to her.
It does not create large new avenues for artists to be discovered by unwitting fans.
Bizarrely, both mass shootings occurred at the hands of apparently unwitting security or police personnel.
Is the Trump administration actively undermining Guatemala's anti-corruption efforts, or is this unwitting neglect?
That, suggests Wilentz, makes the present-day neo-Garrisonians unwitting allies of the Southern apologists.
If I can pretend to be a US general, unwitting people will respect me immediately.
The Russian Internet Research Agency recruited unwitting "assets" to spread misinformation and targeted black Americans.
But press reports have revealed at least one major incident showing witting or unwitting involvement.
AND FINALLY ... Living drone A seagull grabs a GoPro camera and becomes an unwitting drone.
And yet, today, it seems we are unwitting passengers on a slow train heading backwards.
Each person who contracts the disease is a vector and an unwitting threat to others.
Mr. Rose said he would like to represent unwitting Queens candidates in a similar suit.
In my opinion, Dr. Siegel's article is an unwitting endorsement of a single-payer system.
At the same time, an unwitting fiduciary could toss out the cryptocurrency without realizing it.
He has become an unwitting flashpoint in the diplomatic rift between the two NATO allies.
The child, in the soldier's arms, became an unwitting shield against the mass of shrapnel.
In the indictment, Trump campaign officials are referred to as "unwitting" participants in Russian information warfare.
But the appeals court ultimately ruled that the law was too broad, punishing unwitting third parties.
But finding out that we were unwitting pawns in Russia's global political chess game is disturbing.
The indictment points to previously unsuspected collusion—again, perhaps unwitting—between the Russians and opportunistic Americans.
He serves as the unwitting tabula rasa on which she projects all her hopes and fantasies.
High levels of immigration since then have given plenty of people unwitting claims to foreign nationality.
Faced with limited resources, conservation groups have no option but to engage in triage, however unwitting.
"Patients around the world have become unwitting test subjects for new medical technology," the consortium stated.
Weis's and Freundt's investigation has revealed the conscious and unwitting beneficiaries of these exploitative working conditions.
This highest example of this "Super Bowl" tendency is Jack and Rebecca's unwitting final moments together.
The defendants had argued they had been ignorant of their boss's fraud, or were unwitting accomplices.
Misinformation now spreads farther, faster, and ensnares unwitting accomplices who share bad information without realizing it.
Such measures, however, won't necessarily shield unwitting victims from the headaches that typically follow identity theft.
She owes at least some of her local celebrity status in Portland to this unwitting tenderness.
Lopchinsky, suddenly an unwitting poster woman for turkey victims everywhere, is still haunted by the attack.
Harrison Ford was the unwitting victim of a police training session gone awry ... TMZ has learned.
They're just an unwitting host to a parasite that drinks blood and hates fluffy baby ducks.
There's a ripple effect to these multiplayer exclusivity deals that make early adopters into unwitting evangelists.
"Patients around the world have become unwitting test subjects for new medical technology," the consortium said.
When his wife, Ciera, got pregnant, he asked unwitting family members to sit for an interview.
It all began when Eby sent a random image of a coyote to her unwitting husband.
And he made the United States and its senior officials unwitting elements of his malign strategy.
Facebook and Google didn't make Trump president, and Mark Zuckerberg is not some unwitting Russian agent.
It also can play other rebate games that could cost unwitting employers a lot of money.
She planned to give unwitting trick-or-treaters candy tainted with his germs, Yahoo News reported.
Africa's growing obesity problem, Silvio Berlusconi's return to politics and a fitness app's unwitting security leak.
What's worse, Russia found unwitting Americans to serve as assets who helped spread the IRA's propaganda.
It is possible that the finance firms and other players were unwitting partners in the activities.
But people working for Unwitting Incompetents have no power, and their supervisors are often hamstrung, too.
Rather, it is an unwitting document of the current moment and women's convoluted relationship to work.
Nancy Pelosi, the unwitting star of a famously misleading (though not deepfaked) viral video last year.
His fellow gangsters pointed down the street at two young men — a pair of unwitting targets.
When Warren began going off on campaign fundraising transparency and millionaires, Buttigieg became her unwitting target.
Some of these Russians communicated with "unwitting" associates of the Trump campaign, the document says. Sen.
Engineered pop-up protests around the country of unwitting Americans on either side of the debate.
The politics of outrage was his edge, and the press became his dependable if unwitting ally.
Multiple studies have shown that doctors' care can be shaped by prejudices, both intentional and unwitting.
And the press, he believes, are his unwitting accomplices — helping him even as they attack him.
These indictments do mention "unwitting" Americans, which appears to let the Trump campaign off the hook.
What we saw yesterday was collusion witting or unwitting, and the presidents words and attitudes towards Putin.
Again and again, we become unwitting participants in Moreau's sado-masochistic spectacles, his beatific and brooding reveries.
But, again, he was an unwitting kind of participant in something that made him a household name.
Orphan Black explores this taboo by giving us villains that love experimenting on unwilling or unwitting people.
He went on to praise the reserve that has protected the unwitting salamander species throughout the years.
And, because if anything men are consistent, one men wrought a disastrous breakup upon an unwitting woman.
Chris, the unwitting "star" of the program, is one of two participants who's there when it happens.
The ensuing conversation about Hollywood's unwitting ignorance ended up being more fascinating than the movie being produced.
Reports of unwitting tourists being served cheap methanol drinks in Indonesia and Bali have surfaced of late.
I was humiliated, not to mention angry that I'd been made an unwitting accomplice to H's infidelity.
The accounts worked with unwitting U.S. activists to carry out protests in the U.S. in some case.
In the meantime, Ms. Horstman hopes to reach the suspect's unwitting accomplices, those who feed wild dolphins.
Batala is easily read as a comic-opera fascist, and Lange as an unwitting working-class hero.
As a result, "Half the Picture" becomes an unwitting example of the impossible bind facing women filmmakers.
But in health care markets, decisions often affect unwitting bystanders, a phenomenon that economists call an externality.
While many celebrities serve as brand endorsers, unwitting or not, others are trying to become the brand.
Intense scrutiny of the life, times and possible motivation of shooters makes media outlets an unwitting accomplice.
The question of third-party audio recordings of unwitting private individuals has yet to be answered, though.
I'd transferred my zeal for self-optimization onto the unwitting creature I brought home from the pound.
Saddam Hussein of Iraq and other failed figures sold such fantasy self-images to their unwitting nations.
Russia has infiltrated our democracy via social media, and 320 million Americans have become potential, unwitting weapons.
This translates into millions of dollars no longer siphoned into union coffers by unwitting and objecting workers.
The remaining question could be whether Trump wittingly obstructed an investigation into unwitting contacts with the Russians.
"Unwitting" people with ties to Trump's campaign were communicated with in the course of this attempted meddling.
We're at a point where a politician's acknowledging even an unwitting participation in racism seems radically honest.
In the best case scenario, an unwitting customer sinks thousands of dollars into an unproven cosmetic procedure.
Lawyers for both Korchevsky and Khalupsky told jurors that their clients had been unwitting dupes of the Dubovoys.
So this is the ... you have a whole chapter, how you became an unwitting agent of the Russians.
Whole Foods was an unwitting participant in this program, a project of German-Canadian startup Twenty Billion Neurons.
Slud was carried away and hidden, and as he grows up, he becomes an unwitting weapon of revenge.
The SEC said Mustapha, 30, generated at least $68,000 of profit, while costing his unwitting victims about $289,000.
Coordinating with unwitting Americans through social media platforms, Russians staged rallies and paid Americans to participate in them.
In an act of almost unwitting morale-boosting, an eight-year-old Richie transformed himself into a showman.
In fact, Jefferson had originally included an extended attack on the king for forcing slavery upon unwitting colonists.
And now the dreamers, unwitting, sickened with nostalgia, have torn down that last, threadbare vestige of Great Britain.
Similarly, he believes homeownership is a rip-off foisted upon unwitting citizens by a $14 trillion mortgage industry.
We don't know much about Janey-E, wife of Dougie and now unwitting companion of post-Lodge Cooper.
What Anti is doing to Rihanna is making her the unwitting hype man to a non-existing concept.
Logitech was an unwitting partner, having provided joysticks for the project without being told what they were for.
Peter's new wife was Juliet — the unwitting object of her new husband's best friend's affections (confusing, we know).
To get inside, one had to pass through a cavernous garage where a terrifying Doberman charged unwitting trespassers.
There are other details that McDermott finds difficult to square with the idea of Baluchi as unwitting participant.
A photo on the front page of the tabloid showed Ms. Campion, pregnant and unwitting, crossing the street.
It opens with the unwitting hero, Jonah (Logan Lerman), leaving a screening of "Star Wars" with his buddies.
The metaphor makes intuitive sense, in that older artworks often provide an unwitting record of seismic cultural shifts.
By steadily evolving malware known as Bugat, they indiscriminately siphoned tens of millions of dollars from unwitting victims.
As a group, Asian students have been cast as unwitting villains in this dustup about race, privilege, and opportunity.
So this, towards the end, "How I became an unwitting agent of Russian intelligence," set that up for us.
Voits would direct the unwitting employee to type in a URL, which redirected to a site that hosted malware.
He had foreshadowed Facebook's latest headache as the unwitting instrument in Russia's campaign to disrupt the U.S. presidential election.
All this led a former overseer of the CIA to label Mr Trump an "unwitting agent" of the Kremlin.
She's smiling from ear to ear as the unwitting man crosses his arms and sternly looks at the camera.
As surveillance capitalism goes, it's a fiendishly creative repurposing of your users as, well, unwitting volunteer spies and snitches.
In the near term, though, privacy advocates worry that GM has taken the first steps toward surveilling unwitting customers.
The slime became famous for drenching unwitting competitors during Nickelodeon game shows such as "Double Dare" in the 1990s.
Large companies have, at times, abruptly found themselves the target of the wrath of angry Indians for unwitting missteps.
By dropping malware in a comment on the social platform, hackers were encouraging unwitting Instagram users to infect themselves.
Of course, to some extent every tech company is a research facility, and we users are their unwitting subjects.
However, some market participants complained that the funds were risky and could cause unwitting buyers to sustain major losses.
So not only was the app spying on fans, but it was also turning those fans into unwitting narcs.
Mike Quigley (D-Ill) suggested that Trump may well have been an unwitting accomplice in the Russian hacking campaign.
The accounts, whose origins are not yet clear, collaborated with actual, unwitting American activists to organize real life protests.
" Zuckerberg "has become the unwitting poster child for everything wrong with big tech and is taking all the arrows.
One of the group's clear goals was to co-opt unwitting Americans to stage events across the United States.
Those accounts, whose origins are not yet clear, collaborated with actual, unwitting American activists to organize real-life protests.
There's the F.B.I. agent Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), the Jenningses' friend and unwitting pursuer, whose marriage has fallen apart.
Streep became the unwitting ambassador of an issue that is far closer to home for home cooks: avocado hand.
The pastor has become an unwitting flashpoint for the diplomatic tension, which has accelerated the crisis in the lira.
On this day 40 years ago, in a galaxy far, far away, Star Wars descended upon unwitting American audiences.
She may have planned to give unwitting trick-or-treaters candy tainted with his germs, according to Yahoo News.
They accuse the lenders of giving their employees big incentives to sell products like mutual funds to unwitting customers.
In the media, Regev is often portrayed as an unwitting crusader for a cause more sophisticated than she is.
" She adds: "As a result, 'Half the Picture' becomes an unwitting example of the impossible bind facing women filmmakers.
The back and forth continued, with Samuel asking the pastor and, by extension, an unwitting Anner for more specifics.
Whether we were pawns of fate or unwitting participants in a chromosomally arranged marriage, Jess and I quickly bonded.
Astringent and unsentimental, these essays span over half a century and, as such, constitute a monumental, if unwitting, autobiography.
And two weeks ago, one of Adams' closest allies became an unwitting star in a video that went viral.
Senator Elizabeth Warren extracted an unwitting advertisement for her presidential campaign from Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, on Tuesday.
Something similar happened to Spain in the 20th century, but the loss of memory wasn't unwitting; it was enforced.
Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman became the unwitting face of cross-border tensions after crashing in Pakistani territory last week.
An unwitting — ego-driven — tool of Putin's goal to undermine faith in our system and in the Clinton candidacy.
Perhaps, as part of your urge to purge, you try to foist these rejected items on unwitting loved ones.
One house gutted by fire was sold a few days later to an unwitting investor, according to a lawsuit.
But any impostor with Google images and a smartphone could potentially trick an unwitting fan out of a few dollars.
He was an American prisoner of war, brainwashed by the communists into be an unwitting assassin against his own country.
Or have we merely assembled here as gullible, unwitting accomplices to the engineering and celebration of self-censorship par excellence?
As international pressure on Belgium mounted for serving as an unwitting rear-base for extremist fighters who launched the Nov.
Sater's firm spun false stories about the companies to inflate their value, then dumped the overpriced stocks onto unwitting investors.
Skeptics will tell you that Musk is a snake oil salesman coasting on his genius reputation and bamboozling unwitting investors.
It is easy to imagine Mr Sessions as an unwitting player in whatever design the Russians had for Mr Trump.
The unwitting model for Mr Duterte's ghastly war on drugs is Mr Thaksin's similar war against methamphetamine use in 2003.
"Using the geolocation feature, the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims," Sgt.
You act upon them indirectly, whether they're witting or unwitting or complicit — and all of those things are slightly different.
A federal judge has ruled Amazon is liable for billing unwitting parents after their children made unauthorized charges in apps.
Priestap, asked if the president had acted as an "unwitting agent" for the Kremlin, said he wasn't able to comment.
And yet so many of us fall into the terrorists' trap and becoming willing, if unwitting, partners in hate-mongering.
Pretty harmless stuff, but Curry has found herself as a sort of unwitting figurehead for What Women Should Be Like.
If Rey is an unwitting tool of the Dark Side, this particular library may regret giving her a lending card.
In such a highly mediated and monitored system, the line between participation and unwitting collaboration can be difficult to discern.
It would be Khashoggi's final gift to the world, and the club will go on, thanks to his unwitting sacrifice.
Savoca said the tiny bits of plastic might also visually resemble food, providing a double deception for unwitting fish friends.
Apparently, once an unwitting thief cuts into the lock, the gas will shoot out, engulfing them in a noxious cloud.
Some of the Russians were also in contact with "unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign," according to court papers.
He's eventually reduced to being a bit player in his own administration — and an unwitting betrayer of the human race.
He's eventually reduced to being a bit player in his own administration — and an unwitting betrayer of the human race.
Twenty years after it was recorded, Blaine would end up the unwitting participant in hip-hop records like Run-D.
The misdirected movements of everyday life are recorded for posterity, through unwitting subjects not realizing their photo was being taken.
My sister and my cousins were my unwitting servants, and the towels we spread on the rocks were royal robes.
IRA employees posing as Americans posted "organic" content to ersatz groups, which were then shared voluntarily by unwitting Facebook users.
Well, there's a lot of money at stake — money that the financial industry has been extracting from unwitting, unprotected consumers.
One wonders whether Mr. Trump is an unwitting stooge, or whether he is compromising the United States for personal gain.
Equal parts hilarious and ignominious, "Flavor of Love" turned Public Enemy's Flavor Flav into an unlikely and sometimes unwitting Lothario.
But instead of a boomtown, they turned the city into an enormous mining pit, the residents being the unwitting ore.
However, to the extent that it was unwitting, that likely protects them from prosecution for their assistance to the Russians.
Taylor, born in 1970, was part of an early generation of unwitting test subjects for an unregulated industrial food system.
Not as a result of some diabolical plot, but because of unwitting discrimination against secular ideologies and a lack of options.
Meanwhile, as in Tenerife, tourists on vacations lay in the sand, unwitting background characters in a story encompassing so many others.
Scenes throughout the episode undermine the Hills' unwitting prejudices by demonstrating how like them (and therefore 'American'), their neighbours really are.
For Fox, that experience, while unmistakably scarring, was far from a tidy narrative of a sexual predator and his unwitting prey.
Karen Leicht, for instance, served 30 months in prison for her part, which she says was unwitting, in a fraud scheme.
If its own security is faulty, however, the NSA can itself become an unwitting source of information for the bad guys.
On the other hand, that fact is cold comfort to victims who find themselves the unwitting participants of a secret tape.
The IRA also got unwitting targets to hand over personal information, sign petitions, attend rallies, and even teach self-defense classes.
A 2014 Motherboard piece celebrated Goldblum's unwitting position as the tech pitchman in our lives; has there been a lovelier salesman?
But for scammers, the same blue checkmark can be exploited to take money from unwitting users, as BuzzFeed reported last week.
It's like that old board game Operation, where you have to meticulously tweeze bits 'n' pieces out of your unwitting patient.
Regardless, taxpayers are on the hook for the hundreds of millions—and potentially billions—that these programs have cost unwitting students.
The villains are the New Founding Fathers of America and the puppets, witting and unwitting, they use to enact their agenda.
The key difference is that Truman was an unwitting victim, while many of us are happily complicit in the gratuitous oversharing.
The defense has portrayed Mr. Cosby as an unwitting victim of Ms. Constand, who, they say, was pursuing him for money.
The problem of fakes on AliExpress has even ensnared other American small retailers, who have become unwitting customers for the counterfeiters.
Some Defendants, posing as US persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign.
One of the oldest stories is that of Oedipus, in which the son became the unwitting agent of his father's demise.
Externally, ISIS arguably relies upon the West's unwitting publicization of "action as propaganda" to influence the Western response to its attacks.
Not long after righteously spurning her former mentor and (perhaps unwitting) betrayer, Sansa Stark reversed course and asked Petyr Baelish, a.k.a.
We've even had at least one unwitting illegal border crossing as two Canadian kids stumbled into Montana while chasing down Pokémon.
Indeed, the booms of cryptocurrency trading have led to market manipulations in Initial Coin Offerings in which unwitting investors are defrauded.
"Antivirus companies are gold mines for espionage groups, whether it's permitted or unwitting access," the first ex-NSA hacker told me.
What they did is they used their tools and their targeting to basically create an insurgent army of unwitting American voters.
Across the Thames, another actor, also much beloved here, has been bringing exultant life to another of Mr. Stoppard's unwitting equivocators.
Twice throughout the hearing, Thomas Rid addressed whether WikiLeaks was an unwitting asset of the Russian government or a knowing conspirator.
And with climate change, storms are viewed not just as acts of nature but perhaps of unwitting human intervention as well.
She hopes that she has not humiliated herself, in her husband's eyes, with this rash if unwitting act of self-exhibition.
These new laws don't interfere with free speech, but they will prevent taxpayers from being unwitting accomplices to these abhorrent activities.
They bought ads and communicated with "unwitting" people tied to the Trump campaign and others in order to coordinate political activities.
Trudeau Yes, Trump was the unwitting subject of a chuckle-filled chat among other NATO leaders, copped Justin Trudeau on Wednesday.
Mr. Djurica sold his extra seedlings to ambitious local farmers, making him an unwitting cog in the curry plant's local industry.
Jennifer Lawrence was the guest host on Friday's Jimmy Kimmel Live and she decided to play a game with the unwitting public.
Brunson, originally from North Carolina, has lived in Turkey for two decades and has become an unwitting flashpoint for the diplomatic rift.
Mr Weiner's unwitting role in the scandal looks additionally bad for Mrs Clinton—partly because it will make Mr Trump look good.
"Part of what allowed the Harvey situation to occur was that there was this witting and unwitting conspiracy of silence," Rapp said.
"I'm not done yet, I'm eating!" he informed the unwitting soul who had attempted to pry an unfinished dish from his grasp.
Animals across the U.S. are abused in myriad ways, whether for fur, food or other purposes, and consumers have been unwitting accomplices.
Soon enough, these unwitting participants realize they're the subject of the gag and the entire clip dissolves into a goofy dance jam.
Her conviction was controversial, and sparked much debate about whether Grace was actually involved in the murder, or merely an unwitting accessory.
This turn of events is especially problematic because The Alienist's heroes made some major breakthroughs in this exact, unwitting moment of eavesdropping.
Ages ago, in a galaxy some 300 million light years away, an unwitting star veered fatally close to a powerful black hole.
Environmentalists soon sounded the alarm that consumers had become unwitting Canadian "guinea pigs" who were sold unlabeled and untrackable genetically modified food.
Prosecutors said he was motivated by a selfish desire for a "fresh start" with an unwitting mistress he had met at work.
By being the one doing the killing — rather than an unwitting bystander — James is able to act as the master of death.
Washington (CNN)Former CIA acting director Michael Morell again called Donald Trump an "unwitting agent" of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday.
Kelvion Walker was an unwitting passenger in a stolen vehicle when he was shot in the stomach by a Dallas police officer.
Russian operatives may spot and assess those whose views accord with the Kremlin's and seek to cultivate them online as unwitting assets.
The program involved slipping LSD to more than 10,000 unwitting civilians, among other things, to see if they could manipulate people's behavior.
But from the perspective of the skaters — the unwitting participants of this project — Kruger's installation might look nice, but isn't very functional.
The bot account included a link for a "family-friendly summer vacation," and the unwitting user clicked it, according to the story.
Montell Jordan sprang a huge surprise on an unwitting bride over the weekend, and traveled halfway around the world to do it.
But by continuing to appear on the network, they are unwitting enablers of the most appalling and unacceptable workplace discrimination against women.
Banks and her two accomplices, Peter Jones and Julian King, made more than a million pounds selling sick puppies to unwitting customers.
For him, this is a slow path to achieving civil partnership in the future, with Brnabič as the unwitting symbol of resistance.
Or, to show that a dating app can be used by stalkers, can a researcher demonstrate such stalking on an unwitting user?
Mueller describes those Americans as "unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign," which falls far short of collusion with a foreign power.
In the other variety, a scammer impersonating an IRS official contacts an unwitting taxpayer and tricks the victim into handing over money.
Now that police can use open-access genetic databases, they could potentially introduce racial bias to information that originated with unwitting consumers.
But we seldom step back and see the big truth: We are little more than an unwitting audience watching a scripted play.
The Haggler Whenever he rents a car, the Haggler feels as if he's an unwitting player in the world's worst game show.
Occasionally, it would go a step further and provide materials or financial assistance to real, unwitting activists to help run the event.
Knowing that filming near the real wall would draw the attention of East German sentries, the filmmakers used them as unwitting extras.
Fazio added that the driver was not implicated as being a co-conspirator, but rather simply an unwitting driver for drug dealers.
Is my own belated acknowledgment of the need to regulate satire an unwitting discovery of common cause with the likes of O'Grady?
I have become an unwitting expert in exquisite dysfunctional sports management, having spent a lifetime rooting for the Mets and the Knicks.
Many are hopeful; others are upset; and a few feel as if they have been unwitting participants in a multi-act performance.
The most basic form, Ash told CNBC last week, was scammers misrepresenting standard gold bullion coins as rare and overcharging unwitting investors.
When teachers and professors turn the classroom into an arena for anti-Israel animosity, students become unwitting pawns instead of safeguarded learners.
Finally, with the unwitting help of authors preaching personal empowerment, they're bailing on the obligation to care about your happiness at all.
At first, he was an unwitting contributor to the cover-up of the burglary at the Watergate, facilitating payments to people involved.
And in their corner, they like to say, is an unlikely -- and perhaps unwitting -- ally: late conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
"Fran is an unwitting Virgil who leads us through the circles of the hell of aging," writes Cynthia Ozick in our review.
Some potential boycotts of unwitting targets, like Finch Knitting, turn out for the better, but it had the backing of a community.
In 2017, many of us found out that we have been unwitting readers of propaganda and fake news seeded by Russian agents.
In this way, Mr. Trump's opponents have turned legitimate political disagreement into an assault, perhaps unwitting, on the institution of self-government.
Sanders recently lamented the fact that poor people haven't turned out in the primary — an unwitting acknowledgement of the shortcomings of his campaign.
An "unwitting agent," in spy terms, means someone who has been tricked or manipulated into serving as a foreign operative without knowing it.
Nine people have been charged in an alleged conspiracy to hijack SIM cards and steal cryptocurrency from unwitting victims, prosecutors said this week.
" In another thread, posters label themselves a "Right Wing Safety Squad" — something akin to guardian angels, preventing "unwitting leftists from getting themselves killed.
"By duping regulators, Volkswagen turned nearly half a million American drivers into unwitting accomplices in an unprecedented assault on our environment," she added.
Everyone working at Westworld was undeniably complicit in maintaining this "trap" for the poor, unwitting hosts, but did they all deserve to die?
When war breaks out, he becomes an unwitting pawn in a global game to try to get him into the fight once again.
At the same time, Wells Fargo's illegal sales practices have stirred memories of big banks duping unwitting customers during the subprime mortgage boom.
Because they get from place to place via unwitting ship traffic, the global movements of zebra mussels nicely mirror the global shipping network.
The movie puts Aniston and Sandler's Audrey and Nick Spitz on a yacht, the unwitting guests of rich playboy Charles Cavendish (Luke Evans).
Diplomats who visited them both have said they believed they were part of a television prank and were unwitting pawns in the killing.
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East Germany's secretive, state-sponsored sports doping program was a medical and ethical nightmare, with unscrupulous scientists causing lasting harm to unwitting athletes.
Today many of them see him as an unwitting accomplice to the failed coup in which 270 people were killed earlier this month.
Nations of users should not be social experiments or unwitting A/B testers in the grand design of new products by any company.
In Arise From The Gallows, modern-day witches, along with Goyette, playfully enact the stereotypes of the hysterical woman, entrapping unwitting puritan men.
It could also serve as an unwitting manifesto for the show's creators this season: "Whatever happens tonight, I remain as confused as ever."
He inverts rap's equation of loudness equaling hardness, channeling a conversational mumble into pointed, dismissals of unwitting "Stanleys" (police) and "silly billies" (enemies).
And unwitting Japanese McDonald's customers better watch the fuck out, because every single McDonald's in Japan is either a Pokéstop or a gym.
It can also infect you while causing none of those symptoms, which means you might walk around for days as an unwitting carrier.
Cuneyt Cakir, the referee, put his finger to his ear, the unwitting signal that the Video Assistant Referee had some information to share.
Twelve-year-old Kevin (Alex Hibbert), an unwitting witness, would rather be working up the nerve to talk to his crush at school.
"This self-serving bias matches unwitting consumers with objectively lower-quality information," Lowe will say in his testimony, provided to The Technology 202.
"Plainly, there was a slip-up between Fox News and its lawyers, which caused this unwitting self-immolation," he said in a statement.
But in measures both numerical and anecdotal, Mr. Kennedy has emerged as a Senate pacesetter in unwitting anonymity since his election in December.
Inspired in high school by a book that described American consumers as unwitting guinea pigs for the food, pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries, Mrs.
When you're sitting alone in a public space, the last thing you want is to become the unwitting subject of a social experiment.
After breaking into a male-dominated scene almost by chance, Lane was shocked by the level of sometimes unwitting discrimination that she encountered.
That's because the indictment explicitly states that the Russians were posing as Americans when they communicated with "unwitting" members of the Trump campaign.
He sent the letter two months after the FBI informed him the Russians may have been trying to recruit him as an unwitting agent.
His experiment drew controversy not just for its results, but for the ethics of its methods (unwitting subjects forced into a potentially traumatizing experience).
Fake accounts managed to communicate with unaware members of the Trump campaign, and even prompted real-life rallies that mobilized crowds of unwitting voters.
The researchers are calling for a comprehensive tally and removal of these specimens out of respect for the unwitting patients they were taken from.
The eggs emerge as maggots and begin to feed on the live tissue of the animal, the unwitting host to this parasite, explained Putnam.
America, meanwhile, has become an "unwitting swing producer" of oil, in the words of the Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister company of The Economist.
Mr Corbyn's "unwitting" membership of the Facebook group was the latest anti-Semitism row to embroil the party since he became leader in 2015.
The "distributed" part of the denial-of-service (usually) comes when an attacker uses some software to spoof the IP addresses of unwitting computers.
What hasn't been talked about is that Vladimir Putin has an unwitting ally: the American media, which is helping him accomplish that very task.
Despite Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's marriage ending 11 years ago, Aniston was an unwitting starring player in the Brangelina divorce announcement last week.
Yet Drayson believes there is an unwitting irony to these concerns given the Moors contributed to the development of Europe over hundreds of years.
His target here is a seemingly unwitting widow he has met through an online dating service, Betty, played by the ever-delicious Helen Mirren.
" It said there had been a "collective failure" by the authorities "through unwitting prejudice, ignorance, thoughtlessness and racist stereotyping which disadvantage minority ethnic people.
Mr. Trump has routinely treated journalists as foils, and those covering his campaign appearances as unwitting, unspeaking extras good for a joke or two.
Some unwitting Patriots fan apparently asked Smith-Schuster to pose for a picture and the Steelers wide receiver was all but happy to oblige.
" Morell also questioned whether Putin has been preying on Trump's weaknesses, manipulating the Republican nominee into becoming "an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.
At worst, they could be perceived as an unwitting form of cultural appropriation, which has in recent years become a subject of freighted discourse.
Other operatives came to the United States to gather intelligence and coordinate with unwitting Trump campaign staff to organize rallies, according to an indictment.
YouTube had curated the videos from across its archives, at times plucking out the otherwise innocuous home movies of unwitting families, the researchers say.
Yet lawmakers in the thrall of the president continue to wage a cynical campaign to portray us as the unwitting victims of Kremlin disinformation.
If that sounds to you like a book that serves as a perhaps unwitting analog for the current sociopolitical era, you're not far off.
They paid one unwitting Trump supporter to build a cage on a flatbed truck that housed another person wearing a costume that portrayed Mrs.
She's also a pathological liar whose frozen affect borders on shellshocked and whose writing aspirations serve mainly to deceive unwitting readers of her blog.
In this rather hilarious article from the Evening Standard earlier this year, Notting Hill homeowners detailed how their homes have become unwitting Instagram fodder.
But that misconception is an unwitting tribute to how completely the real episode and Rockwell's depiction of it have fused in our collective memory.
Parnas said that any violations of Federal Election Commission rules were unwitting and a "clerical thing" because he was not an experienced political donor.
Similar proposals have been advanced in stand-alone legislation, and model statutes are currently being peddled to unwitting state legislatures across the United States.
Some in the cast, including José Luis Torrijo as the servant Poncia, brought a quiet dignity to their characters, but others generated unwitting comedy.
" This line of questioning was in reference to Facebook's promise to take steps to prevent the preservation of "an unwitting co-conspirator in Russian interference.
Without giving too much away, Isaac became something of an unwitting pawn in the corporate drama surrounding Kalanick's ouster, which he details in his book.
For now, a consumer who becomes an unwitting owner of toeless socks, which were included recently in a box called FabFitFun, may decline further offers.
In other words, Russian troll farms engage in disinformation; when unwitting Americans share those posts, that's misinformation—which, in the end, is the bigger problem.
In this sense, ISIS and groups like it have few more effective allies than the unwitting Trump and his loyal retinue of anti-Muslim rhetoricians.
" - Constitutional law professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, Leah Litman "The indictment refers repeatedly to unwitting people in the Trump campaign.
"Whether they're witting or unwitting, we don't know, but we need to be asking those questions," the official said of the Asia-based DNA firms.
This isn't about the fact that last year they became (hopefully) unwitting shills for foreign governments trying to sway the outcome of our national elections.
As you might imagine, it's very easy to drop a bag of trash or a frying pan from a balcony onto an unwitting criminal below.
In some ways, commodity markets have become unwitting hostages to the man likely to be regarded as the most controversial political leader of his time.
Still, as Fiesco, a Genoese nobleman and Simon's unwitting adversary over 25 years, Mr. Furlanetto brought consummate style and darkly rich colorings to his performance.
If these firms constitute a set-top box cartel gouging an unwitting public, they are the most bungling monopolists in the history of the world.
On Friday afternoon police admitted that they may instead have escaped, potentially in disguise, by persuading an unwitting member of the public to help them.
Instead, he was the unwitting victim of an overzealous FBI and a scheme concocted by two mayoral consultants, Mike Fleck and his assistant Sam Ruchlewicz.
Polis became an unwitting symbol of the transgender community and the struggle for transgender rights when she stepped into a Rosedale McDonald's one April evening.
I would've been about seven years old back then, and that visit to my grandfather's secret room transformed me into an unwitting disciple [of journalism].
"They killed my boyfriend as if he were a rat in a laboratory," she tweeted, referring to those who sold lethal substances to unwitting festivalgoers.
Several current and former spies found Trump's actions so "unfathomable" that they raised — again — the possibility that the US president is an unwitting Russian asset.
While on vacation in September 2019, reporter Allie Conti accidentally uncovered an elaborate Airbnb con when she herself became the unwitting victim of the scam.
Unsurprisingly, more and more unwitting housewives and their babies nevertheless began to show signs of syphilis brought home by husbands who had solicited sex workers.
" - Constitutional law professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, Leah Litman "The indictment refers repeatedly to unwitting people in the Trump campaign.
Instead of boy and creature feeling frightened and vulnerable together, the boy here became an unwitting spy in a plot for global domination from below.
New York City, after all, can be a most obliging co-star to its population of unwitting actors, who are always putting on a show.
They pass diseases to other species via their poop or saliva, and the unwitting intermediaries can transmit the virus to humans in the same way.
Using fake websites and fake activist groups, Russian operatives targeted and co-opted often unwitting Americans to contribute to their disinformation campaigns online and offline.
African-Americans have indeed been used as guinea pigs, the unwitting victims of full-body radiation or unnecessary surgeries conducted in the name of research.
Russian President Vladimir Putin took a jab at the United States for the National Security Agency's (NSA) alleged unwitting role in an international ransomware attack.
While under the stress of hustling unwitting men for all they're worth, Destiny keeps dreaming that she's in the backseat of a driverless speeding car.
The two used Cameo previously for their comedy, soliciting unwitting bodybuilders to threaten their "son" who kept stealing fudge out of his mother's fudge drawer.
He profusely flattered Mr. Trump as "the best candidate" and "the smartest candidate" — and "the Manchurian candidate," implying Mr. Trump was an unwitting Russian puppet.
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine is the unwitting participant in a political battle in Washington between President Donald Trump and the Democrats ahead of the 2020 election.
That could include Amazon, which Facebook claims played an unwitting role in NSO's operations by renting the group cloud servers used to anonymize the attacks.
YouTube and pedophiles: The site's automated recommendation system, drawing on home videos of unwitting families, has created a vast catalog that experts say sexualizes children.
The Carriers' improper disclosure of location information enabled stalkers, people posing as police officers, debt collectors, and others to take advantage and find unwitting individuals.
At the center of all of this black magic drama is Edward Coventry (Max Martini), the grand poobah of the Order and Jack's unwitting biological father.
Defense lawyers say the prosecution has not put forward a motive for the killing and argue the two women were merely unwitting pawns in the attack.
What's happening: "Service workers are … the unwitting first line of medical responders," CityLab reports, because public restrooms have become such a popular place to use opiates.
Some of these bots actually use real people's likenesses (without their knowledge) and are employed to sway opinions, impact someone's influence online, and scam unwitting users.
Yesterday, in an interview with The New York Times, investor Peter Thiel mocked Twitter employees for what he described as their unwitting contribution to Trump's victory.
Mathers has not only been blasted by pretty much everyone, she's now under criminal investigation for taking the pic and then body shaming the unwitting subject.
And the fact that Facebook enabled users to give away their friends' data as well meant that the data leak swept up millions of unwitting users.
"Using the geolocation feature of the 'Pokemon Go' app the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims," officials said.
The key difference between our lot and Truman's is that he was an unwitting victim, while many of us are happily complicit in the gratuitous oversharing.
Kruger's installation at LES Coleman Skatepark can seem mesmerizing, but from the perspective of the skaters — the unwitting participants of this project — it isn't very functional.
Clayton staged a similar stunt during this year's Conservative Political Action Conference in February, where he fooled unwitting attendees into waving Russian flags bearing Trump's name.
Kaufman wrote the elder Trump embraced the FHA's guidelines promoting racial segregation, leading an unwitting Guthrie into the "lily-white neighborhood" he would come to loathe.
After a rough couple of years, Wells Fargo devised a simple strategy to make people forget it stole from unwitting customers: double-down on cheesy Americana.
We'll be following tech's testimony to Congress this week as the companies expand on their own unwitting role in foreign disinformation campaigns during the 2016 election.
While pharmaceutical companies had previously been unwitting partners in the execution trade, they have now effectively become the most powerful death penalty opponents in the country.
Schrems first raised concerns in 2011 about how easy it would be for third-party apps to harvest data from the unwitting friends of Facebook users.
Criminals make millions of dollars a year peddling such products, and worse, to unwitting or reckless buyers, according to the international police agencies Interpol and Europol.
Jackson apologized for playing any unwitting role in the damage done to the women's careers, and the lawsuit is quick to absolve him of any wrongdoing.
The problem is the man on top of the ticket — and the fear that Mr. Pence is an unwitting carrier of a kind of political toxicity.
At Lone Star College in Houston, Texas, an employee diverted over $100,000 in federal student aid from unwitting students to personal bank accounts in her name.
Moreover, the Russians used unwitting agents, which in spy speak means instruments that unknowingly carry out the agenda of an intelligence agency, to spread the news.
The effect is to make players gathered around a table for a game of Puerto Rico into unwitting moral accomplices in the horrors of human servitude.
John is just one of tens of thousands of individuals around the world who are unwitting targets of powerful, relatively cheap spyware that anyone can buy.
According to a government tally, Rathburn supplied unwitting medical educators with body parts infected with HIV or hepatitis at least 120 times from 1997 to 2013.
In those days before YouTube and social media, the gospel of Adu spread by word of mouth, with everyone who saw him play becoming unwitting evangelists.
He cited a recent statement by former acting CIA Director Michael Morell, who said that Putin recruited Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.
Past examples include "Surviving the Game," a 1994 movie in which a homeless man (Ice-T) becomes the unwitting prey for a bunch of wealthy hunters.
The hackers used familiar techniques, like spearphishing (which tricks unwitting users into sharing personal information) and installing malware to monitor specific computers and steal their data.
Google did play an unwitting role in the 2016 election of Donald Trump, serving as a Russian propaganda arm and being used to disseminate fake news.
Written by Wiseau's unwitting best friend Greg Sestero, it's one of the most unexpectedly profound encapsulations of Hollywood aspirations and the American dream in recent memory.
But it was adults who played the dominant roles, with parents, consultants, college officials and athletic coaches under indictment for scheming on behalf of unwitting children.
The crucial, if unwitting, role that Google has played in the treatment industry exposes the deep flaws in how drug addicts are cared for in America.
Following news that John Stumpf would retire immediately, Warren demanded he face investigation for a scandal that involved the creation of fake accounts for unwitting customers.
The Garratts suspect they were unwitting pawns in a gambit by the Chinese government to prevent Canada from extraditing a Chinese spy to the United States.
But Republicans raised concerns that it could create liabilities for parties that may have been unwitting participants in contamination, such as farmers and wastewater treatment plants.
This was a true repudiation of the arguments that Donna Rotunno, his lawyer, made, that these women used Weinstein and that he was an unwitting victim.
One agent rose through the ranks of fascist stewards, tussling with unwitting 19603 Group comrades, to became Mosley's bodyguard (and facilitate the burglary of his paperwork).
It was also an unwitting generator of memes (conscious uncoupling, vaginal steaming), but despite the ridicule, Goop helped the words "lifestyle brand" conquer today's corporate vocabulary.
Reset | While on vacation in September 2019, reporter Allie Conti accidentally uncovered an elaborate Airbnb con, when she herself became the unwitting victim of the scam.
" She told Politico that Trump "makes the press an unwitting accomplice in spreading his lies when they don't keep their focus on egregious abuses of power.
The victim's assailants, arrested and charged with murder, have claimed they were unwitting participants who believed they had been on a hidden-camera prank television show.
"Imhoff whined to the referee with unwitting foresight, 'Why don't you just give the guy his hundred now,'" Gary M. Pomerantz wrote in "Wilt, 258" (2005).
YouTube: The platform's automated recommendation system, at times drawing on home movies of unwitting families, created a vast catalog of videos that experts say sexualize children.
Like the already-named defendants, those co-conspirators will be charged with knowledge of alleged crimes, unlike the "unwitting" persons whom this indictment says they exploited.
I now feel anxious for these boys, who are unwitting celebrities, worried that the attention still to come will exacerbate whatever trauma they underwent in the dark.
When Apple launches its much-anticipated 9693th anniversary iPhone this fall, it will offer an unwitting lesson in how much the smartphone industry it pioneered has matured.
On page four of the indictment, paragraph six, it specifically talks about the Trump campaign, saying that defendants communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign.
Trump had defrauded thousands of other unwitting Trump University students as well, hauling in roughly $50 million and earning a D-rating with the Better Business Bureau.
"We need regulation and reform," he said, citing the tech companies' involvement in the 2016 elections as an unwitting vector for foreign disinformation and election interference campaigns.
Surtr the fire giant is a much more devastating force in Norse mythology than he is in the film, in which he acts as Thor's unwitting stooge.
As the largely unwitting catalyst of intrigues and betrayals of which he then becomes the victim, Mr. MacFadyen turns Walter's Germanic reserve into necessarily self-protective armor.
The White House will be home to a candidate whose chumminess with Russia provoked one former CIA director to call him an "unwitting agent" of Vladimir Putin.
Matt Taibbi writes about the unwitting publishers caught up in Facebook's purge of hyper-partisan news sites that were found to have participated in coordinated inauthentic activity.
The troubled cartoon and unwitting face of the alt-right movement was put to death by his creator, comic artist Matt Furie, on Saturday, May 6, 2017.
Putin's even been accused of cultivating one of the candidates in the election -- Trump -- as an unwitting agent to further his quest to strangle US global power.
But this time the scandal is easy to grasp, even if the scale of it — millions of accounts opened in the name of unwitting consumers — is breathtaking.
Even if Putin may have his number one (if unwitting) operative for sowing discord sitting in the White House, the Russians' work here is likely not done.
Malaysian police now say that one of the two alleged assailants was an unwitting dupe who was fooled into thinking she was carrying out a comedic prank.
Against the conventional wisdom characterizing artists as trailblazers who become unwitting victims of New York City's brutalizing real estate market, Shkuda's work offers a more ambiguous narrative.
In 2010, Wirecard had strenuously denied any connection to fraud and said its banking arm was simply the unwitting sender of payments on behalf of a customer.
In the interview, Stein appeared to dodge a question from CNN's Pamela Brown over whether she believes Russia made her an "unwitting" accomplice during the 85033 campaign.
But even in the realm of mainstream electronic money, some of us are spooked by concerns about data security, technological reliability or the risks of unwitting overspending.
Last year, two defiant minutes on the stage of the Democratic National Convention turned Khizr Khan into an unwitting celebrity, but he has held onto his humility.
Human minds are on a battlefield between warring AIs—caught in the crossfire between forces we can't see, sometimes as collateral damage and sometimes as unwitting participants.
And I've also read about the many blind judgements in which unwitting supposed "experts" have rated wines from places like New Jersey comparably to first-growth Bordeaux.
Roger Federer, one of the world's greatest tennis players, may have become an unwitting spokesman for the effects of climate change on Monday at the U.S. Open.
So that's what qualifies as a gaffe these days: not an unwitting revelation, but anything that can be spun to look bad or reinforce an existing narrative.
Many of the problems involved employees opening phantom bank accounts in unwitting customers' names, inappropriately signing them up for auto insurance and modifying their mortgages without authorization.
Drug investigators say a worrying trend is the mixing of fentanyl with heroin or oxycodone, another popular painkiller, or counterfeit prescription pills — all sold to unwitting users.
However, Clinton's insinuation that Gabbard may be an unwitting Russian asset voiced a concern that some party insiders have been whispering about in private for some time.
But lawyers for Mr. Schmidt, Volkswagen's former head of compliance in the United States, said in the court documents that he had been a largely unwitting accomplice.
But in inclement weather, these apps can lead unwitting drivers like Rachael down unpaved, unplowed, or unsafe roads — turning an attempt to avoid traffic into a disaster.
Indonesian officials said they thought Ms. Siti was tricked into thinking that she was part of a comedy video involving spraying liquid onto unwitting victims in public.
" Despite a 37-page indictment with a long narrative on a coordinated Russian campaign of interference, the most newsworthy fact comes from the carefully placed adjective "unwitting.
Consumers can always buy water with trace amounts of lithium in it; there is no need to impose this burden on unwitting or unwilling water drinkers. 4.
The agency didn't even require Cyberonics to inform patients that there was concern about the death rate, or that they were effectively being made unwitting guinea pigs.
Soviet spies build a giant scientific facility beneath the Hawkins mall and are buying up land throughout the town with the semi-unwitting help of Hawkins' corrupt mayor.
Children, intoxicated college students and public figures, including Jerry Cantrell, lead guitarist with the band Alice in Chains, have been among the unwitting passengers, the Post-Dispatch reported.
In this loose adaptation of King's novel — published under the Richard Bachman pseudonym — Arnold Schwarzenegger plays Ben Richards, the unwitting participant in a reality competition to the death.
But calling the incident a ''perfect storm'' implicitly presented the people involved not as individuals with agency but as unwitting executors of a systemic failing beyond anyone's control.
" The judge said he did not believe the CFAA makes "the millions of people who engage in this ubiquitous, useful and generally harmless conduct into unwitting federal criminals.
It is not clear whether the agent in Schenectady, whom Tesfom declined to identify, or others in the business are knowing or unwitting participants in the smuggling trade.
Its founder posits that insurance-rate discounts could incentivise drivers to become, in effect, freelance roving crime-detection units for the police, subjecting unwitting citizens to constant surveillance.
David Cameron, the unwitting Faust of Britain's populist revolution, chose to call the referendum at a time of maximum disillusionment with those "people they were used to following".
Dr. Ramogida said he was an unwitting pawn unaware of the ulterior motives of his businesses partners, who he believes recruited him as a conduit to top athletes.
But the biggest reason for its chilling effect is unwitting: the prescriptions for saving democracy are so much feebler than the explanation of why it is in danger.
The police allege that Ukena doctored the sergeant's drink with a combo of some pretty heavy-duty mind-altering drugs and then served it to the unwitting sergeant.
Blutrich's tell-all book is part confession, part cautionary tale, and strangely funny (like the time he says he extracted confessions from unwitting mobsters during a proctological exam).
For years, Facebook had allowed third-party apps to access data on their users' unwitting friends, and Zuckerberg was considering whether giving away all that information was risky.
The Times Russian cybercriminals are enjoying five-star holidays at knockdown prices using reward points stolen from unwitting Britons, according to a report by research firm Flashpoint. bit.
Then they discuss Nacho Vigalondo's Colossal, which features Anne Hathaway and Jason Sudeikis as two Americans who have the strange, unwitting ability to control monsters attacking downtown Seoul.
DeSantis loudly objected to suggestions he was in cahoots with far-right figures or that his ties -- unwitting, he said -- to white supremacists should be held against him.
In the show, he played Jackie, the M.C. at the Gaslight comedy club, where Midge Maisel, the housewife-turned-comic played by Rachel Brosnahan, got her unwitting start.
Over the course of four years, at least 5,20133 Wells Fargo employees opened more than a million fake bank and credit card accounts on behalf of unwitting customers.
DeSantis loudly objected to suggestions he was in cahoots with far-right figures or that his ties, unwitting he said, to white supremacists should be held against him.
The Post reports that the crooks hired an unwitting truck driver and provided him with phony paperwork that allowed him to slip away with the eels scot free.
Two women, an Indonesian and a Vietnamese, have been charged in Malaysia with murdering Kim by smearing his face with VX, though they say they were unwitting pawns.
This avian quality is particularly exciting to me because it validates one of my most time-honored soapbox rants, to which I've subjected many unwitting friends and readers.
It said Russians did contact "unwitting" members of the campaign of now President Donald Trump in a bid to support him while denigrating his opponent, Democrat Hillary Clinton.
Prosecutors said she used Facebook accounts stolen from unwitting users for her ISIS activities because she thought it would make it harder for law enforcement to track her.
Many of the machine's unwitting soldiers are elderly or in poor health, and were confused or upset to learn of their political careers from a reporter's phone call.
Local civil-rights groups and black leaders have urged the district attorney to drop the prosecution, saying that black voters were being disproportionately punished for an unwitting mistake.
If these Americans were "unwitting," it is important to know how the Russians exploit such vulnerabilities and for Mr. Mueller's investigation to educate the government and the public.
The Hong Kong police have arrested people based on their digital communications and ripped phones out of the hands of unwitting targets to gain access to their electronics.
Eventually, the heroine of The Hunger Games, Katniss, becomes a contestant, one who manages to destroy the system and become an unwitting leader for a massive societal rebellion.
The news media remains an unwitting accomplice in its own diminishment as it fails to get a handle on how to cover this new and wholly unprecedented president.
Over the next eight months, Lam would find himself the unwitting central character in a saga that would hardly feel out of place in one of his thrillers.
One private took a strap tethered to a transport truck and tried to hitch it to the belt of an unwitting friend, a last prank before shipping out.
The Count purposely slows the deal down so that Harker is forced to stay and become his unwitting prey, and Dracula slowly becomes stronger as Harker wastes away.
Fleiss had made his mark in 53, with "Shocking Behavior Caught on Tape"; its most infamous episode had a bartender stirring an unwitting patron's Martini with his penis.
Fernandez claims he and Eduardo Rivero were "unwitting recipients of a spiked drink or a mickey of sorts" in a plot to disorient them and steal the money.
Forrest's statue was just one of many Confederate monuments that became unwitting sites of #BlackLivesMatter protests: throughout the summer, vandals spraypainted it multiple times with the movement's tagline.
Jimmy and Kim have a great time together, something that extends to occasional con jobs he launches with her first as an unwitting, and then very involved, accomplice.
Police said Australian Taxation Office (ATO) Deputy Commissioner Michael Cranston was an unwitting participant in fraud after he accessed tax office systems at the request of his son, Adam.
The country appears to be encountering little resistance putting tech platforms built by US companies to work building software including "mobile games, apps, [and] bots" for unwitting clients abroad.
While listening to this sequence, I felt deeply uncomfortable and worried that I was participating in the unwitting outing of one queer man over the dead body of another.
Attacked by a fungus that takes over their bodies, flies start acting erratically in the moments before they die, playing an unwitting role in spreading the fungus even further.
This, it turns out, is a huge help to scammers who have managed to open up accounts in the names of unwitting individuals — which sounds shockingly easy to do.
The unwitting referee, Tim Peel, tried to get out of the way, but instead, moved into direct range of the black biscuit—only to hit him...in the biscuits.
Along with anonymous faces, Altmejd sculpted the heads of Donald Trump, Mark Twain, and Henrietta Lacks — the unwitting donor of the "immortal" cells that scientists used to cure polio.
Under this scheme, innocent and unwitting Ukrainians were unknowingly entered into the visa lottery system and then extorted for money or forced to enter fake marriages if they won.
Pierce maintains that the FBI has conflated NCAA violations with crimes and is playing the unwitting heavy — the "enforcement arm," if you will — for a feckless and ignoble NCAA.
In fact, it is certainly possible that her version of events was true: She was duped by an evil man into playing an unwitting part in a mass murder.
He envisioned something high-concept, like the critically acclaimed 2008 Belgian film "JCVD," which starred Mr. Van Damme playing himself as an unwitting participant in a post office robbery.
It was also the year of the internet villain, as countless people, businesses, and things spent the year one-upping each other in an unwitting quest for the title.
It's only the latest volley in the battle between millionaires and millennials, and one in which avocados have becoming an unwitting proxy for the spendthrift ways of the youth.
At eight feet tall and facing Wooster Street from the museum's windows, 19 of JEB's images will be equally accessible to the witting gallery-goer and unwitting passer-by.
"We are just telling her that she did it and she's like an unwitting hero," said Cheryl Amitay, another friend from Holton-Arms who was heading to the gathering.
Investigators comb through records, cue up CCTV footage, and generally focus the lens of state surveillance on individuals who may (or may not) be unwitting vectors of the illness.
But in his most recent tenure atop the polls, Sanders has also become an unwitting comedy icon and celebrity magnet, replete with some extremely famous endorsements backing his candidacy.
And enormous numbers of Americans are not only failing to fight back, they are also unwitting collaborators, -- reading, retweeting, sharing and reacting to Russian propaganda and provocations every day.
In these pages, we have some people who excel through the discipline of old-fashioned theatrical technique and others who seem less like actors than like unwitting documentary subjects.
Yes, China Agritech involves a securities class action, specifically fraud claims that the China-based, U.S.-incorporated fertilizer manufacturer had minimal operations and existed mostly to ensnare unwitting investors.
Ilhan Omar, who has become an unwitting teacher of anti-Semitism, reverting to the classic themes of the old hatred as she seeks to question US support for Israel.
Most at risk are unwitting owners of ad-funded websites and apps, which Google has said have the responsibility of getting consent to serve targeted ads to European consumers.
Besides, she said, nobody wants to come in on a day off to have the inevitable talk with managers about an incident, let alone become an unwitting YouTube star.
In the movie, the dog-sized dinosaur hunts down an unwitting computer programmer (played by Wayne Knight) by extending a circular neck frill and blinding him with poisonous spit.
It involves an item the unwitting viewer is likely to first consider an intrusion into the show, the only one not painted in one of the two institutional colors.
Nicolas Pelham charts their rise and fall In the fall of 2016, two American pop cultural icons became unwitting touchstones in the discourse surrounding the contemporary relevance of data.
Watching this man sleep, I felt strangely as though I was being watched too (and of course I was, by the security cameras), somehow an unwitting part of Soth's game.
The revelation that Scott had an unwitting mistress at the time of Laci's disappearance fueled the suspicion about him and the woman, Amber Frey, was a key witness for prosecutors.
Trump, who counts evangelical Christians among his core supporters, has become a vocal champion of the pastor's case, making him an unwitting flashpoint in the tension between two NATO allies.
This intimate biography of the sickly 19th-century philosopher who became an unwitting intellectual pillar of the Third Reich moves between his life, his published work and his personal writings.
In it, secret agent Harry Hart (Colin Firth) travels to Kentucky to investigate a hate group that is being used as an unwitting test subject by a villainous tech billionaire.
His next book is also set in a technological near-future, where an Interpol agent named Kenneth Durand tracks down illegal genetic enhancements and people who experiment on unwitting subjects.
It will also host community events to answer questions from residents of San Francisco who, in some respects, are the company's unwitting test subjects in its public self-driving experiments.
The table was cordoned off while business carried on as usual, leaving the bed bug to potentially make its way to an unwitting customer, an employee told the NY Post.
Mr Prigozhin and his minions seemed to revel in the work around America's presidential election, which involved travelling to America for research and hiring unwitting Americans to do their bidding.
Presto. And, just like that, Benedict Cumberbatch materialized out of nowhere as his character in Doctor Strange to shock unwitting fans at a comic book store in New York City.
But the purpose of this new list remains murky, leaving some civil-liberties advocates to argue that it places unwitting travellers into a federal database without accomplishing any real ends.
It's likely that this message — "robot testifies about AI threat " — will be the one that sticks in peoples' imagination; a valuable, if unwitting, lesson about the dangers of AI hype.
And, if Grace has any doubts about the status of Nancy and Kinnear's relationship, she walks past a room where the pregnant woman and unwitting father-to-be are canoodling.
The revelation that Scott had an unwitting mistress at the time of Laci's disappearance fueled the suspicion about him and the woman, Amber Frey, was a key witness for prosecutors.
Mr Mueller's indictment quotes e-mails and cites banking transactions showing Russians hiring unwitting Americans to dress as Mrs Clinton in a prison costume and ride around in a cage.
Prosecutors say that in addition to the more than $26 million he stole from Fyre investors and contractors, McFarland also scammed at least $150,000 from unwitting NYC VIP Access clients.
The elder Lacks, who died in 1951, became the unwitting donor of the first immortal human cell line — cultured cells that can be kept alive for long periods of time.
In our newsroom's experience, sometimes the space goes away when you add punctuation and sometimes it does not — meaning that we ran the risk of being an unwitting space user.
"Unwitting American and European consumers are inadvertently helping fund extremist groups in Afghanistan," Nick Donovan, Campaign Director at Global Witness, said in a statement, calling for stronger checks on imports.
Tom Cotton brought up that Clinton could also be an unwitting agent for all her blaming of the election loss elsewhere, another comment Priestap said he would not comment on.
But differences mount from there, chief among them the fact that Trump is at bottom an unwitting agent of anyone who flatters him, until such time as they betray him.
It was a nod to the ethical dilemma at hand: Should bartenders really be serving these drinks to unwitting patrons, and if they do, should they come with a warning?
Are the media and other commentators currently filling the role of unwitting boosters of the oil price by keeping the freeze issue front and center of the current market debate?
Collusion can be criminal if it involves conspiracy to break federal laws, or it can involve perfectly legal, unwitting actions that still jeopardize America's security against a "frenemy" like Russia.
On the left, the company has a checkered history of sometimes unwitting censorship in incidents that have affected everyone from Black Lives Matter supporters to parts of the LGBTQ community.
Then, once Grayson managed to trick his unwitting victims into sending explicit photos, he would demand they enact one of his poop crimes on St. Bernadine, or face his wrath.
Far more important, in the 2016 campaign, was "organic content": the countless messages, created by masked Russian social-media accounts, that were spread by algorithms, bots, and unwitting American users.
In his worldview, individuals are rarely to blame for society's ills; more often they are unwitting pawns in a chess game playing out on a scale they will never comprehend.
Voice-spoofing technology was used to steal a quarter-million dollars in March from the unwitting CEO of an energy company, who thought he was talking to his (German) boss.
By driving victims underground, it could turn them into an unwitting vector that could spread disease back to people who think they have made themselves safe by forcing immigrants away.
The Newstweek is a small device that plugs into a wall outlet and allows individuals to modify the contents of news sites for unwitting readers using public Wi-Fi networks.
The trio of senators urged the CBP to help "prevent such goods from being sold to unwitting American merchants and customers" and to consider checking random samplings of imported leather.
When the fake Tommy hits the ice, an unsuspecting skater cruises over to make sure he's alright, and the guy winds up becoming an unwitting audience to Johnny's tragic end.
" Facebook said: "This network was in early stages of audience building and was operated by local nationals -- witting and unwitting -- in Ghana and Nigeria on behalf of individuals in Russia.
Mr. Jackson and other rank-and-file workers worry that the Postal Service is not doing enough to protect them, and that they could become unwitting carriers of the virus.
The indictment of the Russians — who are accused of flooding Facebook and other social media with disinformation and propaganda — cited only contact with "unwitting individuals" connected with Mr. Trump's campaign.
As Russia did around the 2016 election, Iran appears to have co-opted and in this case paid a small number of unwitting Americans to lend legitimacy to its operations.
On Thursday, with news helicopters hovering and hundreds of police officers deployed across the campus, many Berkeley students lamented they had become unwitting actors in a show of political Kabuki.
Parnas told Reuters in an interview last month any violations of U.S. Federal Election Commission rules were unwitting and a "clerical thing" because he was not an experienced political donor.
From scheming, fatally flawed beasts that populate folktales, to the anthropomorphizing of pets by their owners, to the digitized emoticons and avatars in our phones, animals become our unwitting doppelgängers.
The eight-count indictment also includes the explosive allegation that some defendants, who masqueraded as politically active Americans, had contact with "unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign" and others.
Unsurprisingly, the media has largely sided with McConnell, painting the majority leader as the unwitting victim of Trump's petty Twitter rages and scolding Trump for sowing disunity within the GOP.
The shuttered entrance and flapping notices are a blunt reminder of how South Korean businesses have become unwitting victims in a year-long diplomatic stand-off between Beijing and Seoul.
"I was pleased to see the special counsel called us unwitting, because we were," said Susie Wiles, who took the helm of Trump's presidential campaign in Florida in September 2016.
Friday's indictments present incontrovertible evidence that the Kremlin mounted a large-scale, concerted attack on American democracy, one that was coordinated with certain US nationals, whether witting or unwitting partners.
Sarasota Police Department have since released surveillance footage from the bar, which shows two hooded men shoving unwitting patrons out of the way before making their way behind the bar.
The 1998 film, directed by Peter Weir, stars Jim Carrey as the unwitting Truman Burbank, who is the subject of a lifelong reality television show — which began when he was born.
It was not the first time Agnew had pegged an unwitting bystander: the year before, at the same Bob Hope Desert Classic, he nailed pro partner Doug Sanders in the head.
People forge careers out of recording their thoughts on iPhones—and sometimes the making of prank and "social experiment" videos mean that a career comes at the expense of unwitting strangers.
Scientists have gone so far as to create catalogs of meteorite imposters they've been sent, and careful guides are written to try and prevent unwitting first time buyers from purchasing fakes.
In my view, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ("CFAA") does not make the millions of people who engage in this ubiquitous, useful, and generally harmless conduct into unwitting federal criminals.
She's an unreliable narrator, and while I wouldn't say I, Tonya laughs at her, it does undercut her attempts to self-mythologize her own status as an underdog turned unwitting villain.
In 2013, Boston Calling was the test site for a secret facial recognition pilot program run by the Boston Police Department, which subjected thousands of unwitting music fans to face surveillance.
Indeed, much of the antipathy on the left appears to be based on the fact that the idea originated on France's far right, as many Socialists, with unwitting candor, have acknowledged.
All in all, it's a pretty good fake — if it were real, the page would have likely convinced at least a few unwitting investors to sink their money into Howey Coin.
The singer slipped up by using his family's home address to gain access to sites — which is how his parents came to be the unwitting recipients of some X-rated postcards.
Because states do not typically share timely information about disciplinary actions taken against health-care workers, footloose rogues can create a costly regulatory headache for unwitting new employers in another state.
It's a sensible move from Apple, after its App Store was hit by a plague of "free" apps that used a variety of shady tactics to extract money from unwitting users.
Going back to the hilarious idea of a landing page for Microsoft Notepad, if that's the first thing an unwitting future Notepad user sees, they'd be in for a terrible shock.
The application was subsequently renewed multiple times by several DOJ officials after each independently found cause to suspect that Page was being cultivated as an unwitting agent of the Russian government.
An overlooked gift of the poem may be its unwitting revelation that Modernism itself is haunted by loss, that is, by a rejection of traditional ways of containing emotion, however inadequate.
"We therefore do not discount the possibility that some human rights groups have become unwitting tools of drug lords to hinder the strides made," Roque said, without naming any rights group.
Unwitting martyr Many of his friends and supporters said at the time of his release that they feared the dissident was close to death -- made a martyr by the Communist authorities.
Whatever Trump's motivation, Morell is right in suggesting the billionaire nominee is at the least acting as an "unwitting agent" who often advances the interests of foreign actors hostile to America.
"In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation," former acting CIA Director Michael Morell wrote in August.
British shoppers are likely to be unwitting accomplices to this process: recently retail figures have held up, suggesting that, for now at least, consumers may be willing to pay higher prices.
The arrogance and thin veneer of the First Amendment's protection of freedom of speech is not a license to mislead, lie, and cheat the even unwitting public out of the truth.
To delve further into this hideous moment would be unfair on the unwitting viewer, but I can promise that it's nowhere near as bad as the experience of reading the book.
What comes through in Sachs's long chronicle is the extent of Toscanini's role, witting and unwitting, in transforming the way that classical music was produced and consumed in the twentieth century.
It is possible that Ecuador feared that, because of its decision to give exile to Mr. Assange, it risked becoming a witting or unwitting participant in an effort at voter manipulation.
By the time Rosario Dawson, the narrator, points out that blockchain will likely require some form of regulation to survive, the movie has become an unwitting endorsement of the status quo.
Just by following her own muse, Shimomura has accidentally become one of the most influential figures in the world of video game music; an unwitting witness to her own personal kingdom.
"The defendants took advantage of unwitting patients who were simply trying to get relief from their health concerns," Craig Carpenito, the United States attorney for New Jersey, said in a statement.
Jessica (Margo Seibert), who identifies herself as the unwitting star of the "white woman goes crazy video," describes being shamed online, unable to resist following every fresh assault on her reputation.
For all of the headline-grabbing talk of a flame-haired Russian spy seducing unwitting Americans that followed her arrest, they say, Ms. Butina hardly lived her life in the shadows.
He then groomed and seduced the child's mother to have her lay down her defenses and give him unfettered access to her son, making her an unwitting accomplice to his depravity.
Platt plays the title character, a friendless, phobic high-school senior who gets caught up in a moral quandary—and becomes an unwitting social-media hero—after a classmate's tragic death.
That said, the irony is that Mr. Trump's Putinophilia is correct in an unwitting way: The United States needs Russia inside the international order for its own security and global stability.
" He described Al Qaeda's financial involvement in credit-card fraud and drug smuggling, and also the group's "investment in unwitting companies in Bosnia, Canada, Chechnya, Denmark, England, Germany, Mauritania, and Spain.
These ideas, like a virus itself, can be easily transmitted from person to person, carried by both the unwitting and the devious and spreading almost invisibly through a vast virtual world.
Put simply, a handful of banks created billion-dollar complex financial products that were designed to fail, sold them to unwitting customers around the world, and then profited from the failures.
Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat, who wrote Facebook and its peers a letter in November stressing they had to tell their users if they "may have been unwitting participants" in the Kremlin's efforts.
Most of those sites appear to be spear phishing pages, similar to those described in the FBI indictment, designed to trick unwitting users to enter the login information to their email account.
"The Chairman obviously recognizes the irony of the SEC potentially serving as the unwitting tipper in an insider trading scheme," said John Reed Stark, a former SEC staff member and cyber expert.
Evil Genius delves into the disputed question of Wells' true involvement, unearthing interviews with witnesses who defend him as an unwitting pawn, despite investigators' belief he had some participation in the planning.
CNN has previously documented how Russian operatives ran fake Facebook pages that posed as Black Lives Matter groups, organized protests, and even hired unwitting Americans to undertake tasks in the United States.
"[In these therapy sessions], he laid the groundwork for psychological conditioning these young adults of becoming unwitting victims of sexual exploitation, verbal and physical abuse, extortion, forced labor, and prostitution," Sweeney said.
The apps then lead unwitting users to a website that asks them to verify that "You'r Not A BOT" by downloading another app, and the link leads to an "unlock instructions" screen.
It was an inauspicious beginning to what would end up being a 12-hour ordeal, one involving a desperate wolf, swarms of mosquitoes, an unwitting bear cub—and a can of beer.
From their vantage point on the ground, the Parr family missed out on the aerial fight between Syndrome and Jack-Jack, and they're certainly not home when he tortures the unwitting babysitter.
Apparently, Cohen thinks that honorary "Special Publicity Consultant" title isn't enough acknowledgment for Palin's unwitting role in the show—she's earned the right to be his guest at the Golden Globes, too.
A "de minimus public interest" in the details of Amazon's corporate strategy to entice children to spend millions of dollars of their unwitting parents' money in order to play supposedly free games?
The system likes to follow the car ahead, and on one occasion Hotz had to intervene before the ILX took us off the highway to follow an unwitting driver on their commute.
If Sloan is the only witness that Porter managed to help embarrass out of a job, several others have found themselves unwitting dunces caught in her tough-but-clear line of questioning.
"Eventually Russians are going to need people on the ground here -- whether they're witting or unwitting Americans -- to help them with their propaganda operations," said Hall, the retired CIA chief of Russia.
Throughout most of "The Water Cure," the reader can't tell whether the daughters really are refugees from a poisoned apocalyptic future or just the unwitting captives of a tiny crackpot separatist cult.
Criticism, no matter the tone or validity, is rejected out-of-hand and cast as either unwitting moral failure, political naïveté or, worse, the crass expression of something deplorable in the critic.
"Using the geolocation feature of the 'Pokemon Go' app the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims," the O'Fallon Police Department warned in a statement.
One of Rudy's YouTube videos details the process by which scammers can bust open a sealed booster box, fill it with fake product, then reseal it to sell back to unwitting victims.
Until one day, when Alice wakes up to find that her account has been mysteriously hacked by a doppelganger who looks like Alice and performs live on-air to Alice's unwitting fans.
The method of the series seems to be in keeping with that of Mr. Cohen's previous efforts, which blurred the line between satire and reporting, with the disguised star filleting unwitting subjects.
Using fake personas, employees of the agency staged political rallies in New York, Pennsylvania, Washington and Florida, recruiting unwitting local activists, and, at times, Trump campaign officials to help out, prosecutors said.
Playing out completely on a desktop screen (another SXSW entry this year, "Profile," does the same), it leads its unwitting characters to dangers that can't be closed out of or deleted away.
The interference began in 2014, long before Trump's run for the White House, they say, and the indictment describes Trump campaign officials as "unwitting" accomplices in Russian efforts to influence the electorate.
The research program there, a Cold War project, had no connection with the notorious mind-control experiments conducted by the C.I.A. in the 1950s, in which LSD was tested on unwitting civilians.
Senator Doug Jones, the Democrat who was an unwitting beneficiary of misinformation tactics during a special election in Alabama in 2017, asked the Federal Election Commission on Wednesday to investigate the episodes.
The Federal Reserve's decision to lower the federal funds rate by 2900 basis points on Tuesday is the latest indication that it is becoming an unwitting agent of the U.S. stock market.
"This is just another example of how unwitting consumers are to the ways in which their data is collected, sold or shared, and commercialized," Senator Mark Warner told Motherboard in a statement.
And Boston will soon add the No. 1 pick of the draft — thanks to the unwitting munificence of the Nets — while retaining that team's first-round pick for next season as well.
Friday's indictment noted that Russian representatives interacted only with "unwitting" Trump campaign aides -- a statement that the President's supporters used to inaccurately claim he had been absolved of any wrongdoing by Mueller.
In these hustles, victims are eventually turned into unwitting mules for BEC, because an attacker can tell them to set up bank accounts and receive wire transfers without too many questions asked.
" The article was illustrated with paparazzi shots of the unwitting couple as they stepped onto a tarmac and arrived together at what the tabloid called "their beachfront love nest in Santa Monica.
Some Defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities.
While many at the stadium were unaware of the U.S. congressional elections and their unwitting role in some campaigning, news spread to others by word of mouth and reports seen on phones.
The indictment does not assert any wrongdoing by the president or anyone affiliated with him, saying that some members of the Trump campaign were unwitting in their contacts with the Russian effort.
" Specifically, "Some Defendants, posing as US persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities.
"I call on the FTC ... to investigate the false and misleading marketing practices presented by the manufacturers of these teas and take appropriate enforcement action to protect unwitting consumers from harm," Blumenthal wrote.
At the United States attorney's office, Kate discovers that Pete Decker's elderly parents are unwitting accomplices in his financial crimes, giving Chuck the leverage he needs to force Decker to flip on Bobby.
Video of the prank showed the comedian, Shady Abu Zaid, and a young actor, Ahmed Malek, pretending to celebrate a national holiday in honor of Egypt's police by giving unwitting officers the balloons.
With nothing left to do but gaze and glaze, a viewer's chief responsibility is to not fall asleep (lest you wake to find yourself five episodes into an unwitting binge of Hell's Kitchen).
Rather, it's to help both the public and college sports decision-makers see their own possible biases, unwitting and otherwise, so they can better evaluate the fundamental fairness of the NCAA's economic system.
The tiny Greek islands that sit a short boat ride from the Turkish coast became an unwitting frontline of Europe's refugee crisis last year, with thousands of migrants landing on their shores daily.
"Dais used multiple social media accounts that she hacked and took over from unwitting victims and private social media platforms to provide and facilitate her support," the Justice Department said in a statement .
It was a weekend night, and in a stunning display of audacity I had invited ten equally gormless friends over to drink and smoke weed—mere metres away from my poor, unwitting parents.
Real estate fraud costs unwitting buyers millions of dollars each year, and is aggravated by buyers or sellers who want to make a quick deal and are consequently willing to forego safety measures.
Chris Messer, the head of Decent Criminal's label Dodgeball Records, commented on the palava: Hopefully at the very least it means that Decent Criminal have got themselves a few new, if unwitting, fans.
In 2009, colleagues alerted me that a group of parents judged 'at risk' of having a child born with a particular genetic intersex condition appeared to be unwitting subjects in a medical experiment.
Her career path as a high-profile endorser and motivational speaker was blockaded by broad-backed, husky-voiced East Germans later found to have been unwitting victims of a government-sponsored doping program.
That didn't happen, obviously, with 21st Century Fox indicating on Friday that it found that Mr. Shine — who has said he did not know about the relationship — played an unwitting role at worst.
That tactic has been used before in Iraq, where children or even mentally disadvantaged adults have been dispatched as unwitting bomb couriers into markets and checkpoints before they are blown up from afar.
Conservative commentator Allie Stuckey found out the hard way, when her satirical fake interview with liberal darling Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was summarily condemned as a "reprehensible" act of deceit against an unwitting public.
The only time he got in any real trouble came when he served as the unwitting getaway driver for friends of friends who had squirted ketchup all over a Jack in the Box.
In this case, the unwitting agents were the media organizations who covered the news, as well as WikiLeaks, which published troves of emails from Podesta's inbox, staggering them over the span of weeks.
"Using the geolocation feature of the Pokemon Go app, the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims," O'Fallon police Sergeant Bill Stringer said in a release.
Because the nature of the hostile foreign nation is well known, counter- intelligence investigations tend to be centered on individuals the FBI suspects to be witting or unwitting agents of that foreign power.
The premise was more fanciful than the current reality, but the show presciently dramatized the disinformation campaigns we're now witnessing across social media, except the social media companies are also the unwitting tools.
MOSCOW — An American-Israeli woman was pardoned on Wednesday, months after her severe punishment on charges of having a small amount of marijuana had made her an unwitting pawn in a geopolitical game.
Defence lawyers have argued the killing was politically motivated, with many key suspects linked to the North Korean embassy in Kuala Lumpur, suggesting the two women were merely unwitting pawns in the attack.
The administration realizes, as we do, that when prescribers and pharmacists lack a complete view of a patient's history with powerful opioid medication, they can tragically become unwitting aids to an abuser's destruction.
At the end of the episode, however, it's revealed that Joe's new identity was stolen from an unwitting man named Will Bettelheim, who Joe is keeping in his vault in a storage unit.
But beyond the alleged inflation of subscriber numbers at unwitting consumers' expense, the service also suffered from significant turnover as customers jumped from one discounted streaming service to another, according to the complaint.
That's why when each new candidate announces his or her campaign, US law enforcement needs to take an active role in briefing campaign staff about the risks of becoming an unwitting foreign asset.
The financial statement covers January through March, and therefore doesn't fully reflect any fallout from reports beginning in mid-March that Cambridge Analytica obtained data on as many as 87 million unwitting Facebook users.
In particular, 63 percent of the successful data breaches studied involved weak, default or stolen passwords, and nearly one-third of the so-called phishing emails (see below) were actually opened by unwitting recipients.
This sclerotic management technique was the unwitting handiwork of Jerome Holtzman, a sportswriter who devised a statistic in 1960 that he called a "save" in order to measure the impact of shut-down relievers.
But after a dramatic coup d'etat a year later, this high-profile painting disappeared from public view for almost 20 years and ended up in use as a lunch table for unwitting museum workers.
The former Playboy model and unwitting porn star (via a stolen sex video of her and now ex-husband Tommy Lee) has coauthored a Wall Street Journal opinion piece about the dangers of pornography.
Details are now surfacing about more than 1.5 million unauthorized Wells Fargo bank and credit card accounts created on behalf of unwitting customers by bank employees hoping to cash in on new account bonuses.
If a monster solar storm struck an unwitting Earth, it could cause continent-scale blackouts lasting for weeks to months, and I think we can all agree that's a scenario we'd like to avoid.
Rourke told the judge at Chris' sentencing that he strangled Shan'ann, 34, and smothered Bella, 4, and 3-year-old Celeste, motivated by the selfish desire for a "fresh start" with his unwitting mistress.
This despite Mr Mueller's uncovering of emails from Russians hiring unwitting American conservatives to dress up as Mrs Clinton in a prison jumpsuit and ride to a political rally in a mock prison-cell.
"But we have a whole suite of SaaS products and tools" — including an interesting new tool designed to help hiring managers eradicate their unwitting hiring biases — "so we're becoming more like a SaaS" business.
The world's largest producer and consumer of industrial metals may be acting as a de facto, if unwitting, type of OPEC for metals, adjusting supply in response to price signals and balancing the market.
The movie also sparks to life, fleetingly, when the agents realize actually running the hotel -- including unwitting tourists -- might provide them cover, an intriguing and even amusing idea that mostly withers on the vine.
These were Fara (Nazanin Boniadi), a Persian CIA analyst who grew into a significant supporting character over the course of two seasons, and Aayan (Suraj Sharma), a Pakistani medical student and Carrie's unwitting asset.
Intelligence experts say the request made by the unidentified West Virginian fits a pattern of Russians trying to gather human intelligence and seek unwilling -- and sometimes unwitting partners -- as part of their covert operations.
Also at issue during arguments was whether the position put forward by the environmentalists, represented by Earthjustice staff attorney David Henkin, could saddle unwitting homeowners with steep fines brought on by shoddy septic tanks.
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Regardless of how the House of Representatives' impeachment hearings into President Donald Trump end, some Ukrainian-Americans believe their ancestral homeland has already become a unwitting victim of tumultuous U.S. politics.
"The CIA studied records of old Soviet drug experiments as well as the CIA's notorious and discredited MK-Ultra program, which involved human experimentation with LSD and other drugs on unwitting subjects," Ladin said.
Butina's social media postings, bank transactions and outreach on behalf of the Russian government appear consistent with Russia's other discoverable influence operations, even if she was unwitting of the ultimate purpose she was serving.
Unwitting American bombers attacked and sank the boat near Subic Bay; my grandfather swam to shore with a wounded prisoner in tow, then returned twice to the wreckage to rescue others, including his captors.
Such a risk would be much greater if Kim's own aggression extended beyond hard military assets, either intentionally, or as the unwitting "collateral damage" brought to "soft" civilian populations and to certain corollary infrastructures.
Companies not only serve as victims, but as often unwitting conduits for criminal activity, according to the report, and the Justice Department is trying to increase how often it works with companies on investigations.
Family members and Indonesian officials have said they believe she was tricked into thinking that the attack on Mr. Kim was part of a comedy video, involving spraying liquid on unwitting victims in public.
"Some defendants, posing as US persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities," the indictment says.
Unscrupulous dealers can dupe unwitting collectors who often are not antiquities experts, said Robert Wittman, who founded the Federal Bureau of Investigation's art crime team and now works as a private consultant on art security.
The indictment noted that the defendants allegedly used the names, addresses, social security numbers, and birth dates of unwitting people to open four accounts at an unidentified US financial institution in the summer of 133.
Two of the best-marketed names in artificial intelligence are coming together to pitch their wares to a sea of unwitting rubes new customers with the announcement that IBM and Salesforce are going to partner.
Taylor Swift's security team reportedly installed a kiosk at a concert that used facial recognition technology to scan unwitting fans for potential stalkers, something privacy advocates said is something the public should be concerned about.
Though she's not angry with her husband, it seems, even though it's widely assumed that Joe was the engineer of the fraud while Teresa was an unwitting accomplice, signing her name where she was told.
Yet he dedicated himself to offending the left at all costs—thus, for example, his disastrous early attempt at a Muslim travel ban, timed, on a Friday evening, to cause maximum distress to unwitting travellers.
The mood is tense in Kings Landing, where throngs of common folk are being herded inside the Red Keep, and the Golden Company and the Iron Fleet are assuming their positions as unwitting dragon appetizers.
" Brennan cites the well-known obedience experiment of Stanley Milgram, in which an authority figure, an actor privy to the experiment, instructed an unwitting participant, called a "teacher," to administer electric shocks to a "learner.
The newspaper reported that the Ted Cruz campaign had paid UK academics to gather psychological profiles about the US electorate using "a massive pool of mainly unwitting US Facebook users built with an online survey".
The group had given control of the Castile protest over to real groups in Minneapolis, essentially turning the real activists into unwitting operatives, helping against their will to stage an event conceived of in Russia.
In the 1850s, railroads were pushing preferred stock on unwitting farmers, providing them loans with no money down but secured by their farms — even though those railroads had no earnings to pay the preferred dividend.
They are instead nothing more than a bellwether of the power of assorted interest groups to convince an unwitting public to "take action" to prevent an inevitable calamity if the government rules against their position.
Now, in an effort to track poaching activity, a conservation group has created 3-D printed eggs containing GPS trackers that it will plant in turtle nests in hopes that unwitting poachers scoop them up.
Such technology is unlikely to stay proprietary for long, and given that some people on the internet make a habit of identifying amateur or unwitting models, the underlying tech could supercharge some of these efforts.
In the last two years, Putin has had a witting, or unwitting, ally in Trump, whose attacks on NATO and US allies and decision to pull US troops out of Syria played into Russia's goals.
One stadium in Sukhumi was newly built for the 2014 soccer tournament, next to a golden-domed church and a monkey sanctuary in which Soviet scientists used to prepare unwitting primates for missions into space.
Turns out, the source was a monkey (portrayed by Ross' pet monkey from Friends, who clearly had a thriving acting career) that had been stolen from a research lab by an unwitting scumbag (Patrick Dempsey).
But he is trying to persuade prosecutors, and me, that he was an unwitting assassin, duped by the two mysterious handlers he met at the Vienna Cafe, men he knew only as Philipp and Maksim.
"Some defendants, posing as U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities," the indictment said.
Klayman's aggressive use of the legal system for political ends seems like the kind of tactic Stone, known for his bare-kunckle brand of politics, might have eagerly endorsed before he became an unwitting target.
That, to me, is the most disturbing piece of this week's news — that people inside the company thought that a demo of advanced A.I. fooling an unwitting human receptionist would be greeted with universal praise.
As the museum conserves the painting with the help of the Getty Foundation, its unconventional story is coming to light (apparently, the work at one point operated as a lunch table for unwitting museum workers).
The engineering and electronics conglomerate Siemens said it had become an unwitting pawn in a scheme to evade sanctions against Russia and break a de facto blockade of electricity to the annexed territory of Crimea.
"Trump is going to energize the liberal wing of the party; he's the unwitting unifier of the Democratic Party," said Bob Shrum, a senior adviser to the presidential campaigns of Al Gore and John Kerry.
Since the mid-1980s, Ms. Lawler has taken the art world as she has found it, although in some fairly rarefied circumstances, making it the unwitting collaborator and image bank for her quietly subversive appropriation.
Deutsche has been a primary offender in two of the biggest banking scandals of the past decade: promoting toxic mortgages to unwitting investors and manipulating for profit the main lending rate for banks in London.
"Some Defendants, posing at U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities," the indictment claims.
Leiser and other unwitting guests feel scammed, but if they had listened to a few episodes of The Top Entrepreneurs show, they would have quickly realized that Latka uses the interviews to dig for data.
Art has always been an integral part of Mariam Paré's life, but when she was 20 years old, she became the unwitting victim of gun violence, suffering a serious spinal cord injury as a result.
Along with its predecessors, it ran a regular route for decades from the river town of Iquitos, Peru, to Houston, delivering millions of board feet of stolen timber from the Amazon to unwitting American consumers.
In some ways Indonesia and the Philippines have been playing an unwitting game of political tag when it comes to nickel markets, alternately tightening or boosting supply and altering the form in which nickel reaches China.
"Using the geolocation feature of the Pokemon Go app, the robbers were able to anticipate the location and level of seclusion of unwitting victims," O'Fallon police Sergeant Bill Stringer said in a release, according to Reuters.
But as Lewis' samples show, the scammers are circumventing this prohibition with ease — using Lewis' image to drive unwitting clicks to a secondary offsite layer of fake news articles that directly push people towards crypto scams.
He used it on often unwitting subjects, including prisoners and students, to see if it could induce a mental state extreme enough to work as either a kind of truth serum or a mind-control agent.
"In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation," Morell said, in an article in which he endorsed Trump's rival in the Nov.
It's the tech bro equivalent of a 20203s B-movie: Evil data scientists betray the simple trust of an unwitting, socially benevolent company to snatch private customer data and turn it against them and the world!
Prosecutors said the two played critical roles in defrauding unwitting investors in a classic Ponzi scheme at Agape, which was founded in 2000 by Nicholas Cosmo after he served 21 months in prison for defrauding investors.
Because of its six-second time limit, Vine was the perfect platform for short public stunts — usually involving unwitting members of the public who had no idea they were being pranked while the camera was rolling.
I just want to clarify that anyone who uses my quote going forward is using the quote of an uninformed person and fanning the flames of a non-story by making use of an unwitting accomplice.
"The chairman obviously recognizes the irony of the SEC potentially serving as the unwitting tipper in an insider trading scheme," said John Reed Stark, president of a cyber consulting firm and a former SEC staff member.
Moved by Sesay's resolve, the school principal, Eric Conteh, defied the law, risking his career and becoming an unwitting figurehead in the fight against a rule that rights groups say is outdated and stigmatizes teenage pregnancy.
The bombing of Avianca Flight 203, the worst of Escobar's presumed atrocities, in which 110 people died, is shown to be the work of an unwitting suicide bomber, whom Escobar dupes into taking a bomb aboard.
The findings, provided to the Senate Intelligence Committee, underscore how Russian agents used fake think tanks as well as unwitting American journalists in addition to social media to spread their narrative ahead of the 2016 election.
Some have already pulled out, because of Zika and other concerns, such as the safety of hosting sailing competitions on Guanabara Bay, an unwitting receptacle for raw sewage and garbage from some of Rio's poorest neighborhoods.
The real issue here is that Google must reconsider whether it is time to scrub extremist materials from its products and services, to ensure they are not used as unwitting tools of radicalization and, ultimately, murder.
Careful reporting by the Times , and by the Observer , in the U.K., has now revealed how Cambridge Analytica "scraped" information from as many as fifty million unwitting Facebook users in order to help the Trump campaign.
The show strives to be whimsical but feels so weightless there's little incentive to stick around long enough to find out -- an unwitting endorsement, in a way, of the fine line that "Better Call Saul" navigates.
The two then digress into discussing the "chemical war" on America by corporations and the government: "they know what they're doing, they're targeting us" by foisting GMOs, fluoride, and other such chemicals on an unwitting public.
Rid was a witness in one of the first open hearings on Russian disinformation of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in March, where he called out Twitter as an " unwitting agent " of adversarial intelligence services.
Goaded by Uncle Pang, Pat, along with an unwitting Annie, starts a fire that eventually guts the restaurant, forcing these long-simmering relationships and rivalries into sharp relief as priorities and allegiances are tested and reassessed.
This month The Knoxville News Sentinel reported that the F.B.I. had identified Tennessee as a "source state" in a pipeline that transferred guns and ammunition from unwitting private sellers in Tennessee to convicted felons in California.
Last June, Mr. Gotti, now 24, pleaded guilty to torching the car of an unwitting motorist who made the mistake of cutting off an aging Bonnano family figure on Cross Bay Boulevard in Howard Beach, Queens.
First, just as Mr. Trump's comments were an invitation to foreign governments to help, the Mueller report is an unwitting invitation to Mr. Trump and foreign governments to use opposition research to evade campaign finance law.
Using Gmail accounts with American-sounding names, the Russians recruited and sometimes paid unwitting American activists of all races to stage rallies and spread content, but there was a disproportionate pursuit of African-Americans, it concludes.
Just as mortgage and debt securities were packaged, carved up and sold to often unwitting investors before the financial crisis, risky high-interest loans have been similarly packaged over the past decade, mostly by nonbank issuers.
Working clothes include a mask and newsboy cap outfit for burglary and a svelte tuxedo for passing herself off as the dapper Count de la Brive, a guise in which she courts Kutt-Hendy's unwitting sister.
They opened millions of accounts in customers' names without their knowledge, signed unwitting account holders up for credit cards and bill payment programs, created fake personal identification numbers, forged signatures and even secretly transferred customers' money.
Talk Your book follows a decade-long reporting adventure that traces the story of Henrietta Lacks, the unwitting donor of what became the first human cells to grow indefinitely in a lab, known as HeLa cells.
FRANKFURT — One of Germany's biggest companies said Monday that it had become an unwitting pawn in a scheme to evade sanctions against Russia and break a de facto blockade of electricity to the annexed territory Crimea.
"Unwitting" members of Trumpworld working with Russians, who didn't identify themselves as Russians, is not the same as a willful effort on behalf of members of the Trump campaign to actively collude with the Russian government.
Even if nonprofits could protect the Social Security numbers or decide to collect it at all, scammers could call the unwitting donors, pretending to represent a charitable organization they donated to and demand this sensitive information.
"Some Defendants, posing at U.S. persons and without revealing their Russian association, communicated with unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign and with other political activists to seek to coordinate political activities," according to the indictment.
He tells so many untruths that it's time to leave behind the textual parsing over which are unwitting and which are deliberate — as well as the condescending notion that most of Trump's supporters enjoy his lies.
After the roach's lifeless corpse was exhumed from Collins's head, the doctor took a final peek and realized that the insect left a final gift inside his unwitting host—an egg full of tiny roach babies.
Beyond that, without the members of Jud Jud being able to see the reactions of the people blindly buying their demos, they had no way to know how this was being received by their unwitting audience.
It's that process itself that is being attacked: The Methbot group offers fake advertising inventory into the system, and then generates phony views of the ads in an effort to collect money from the unwitting ad buyers.
While it's true that Facebook didn't directly hand over personal information of unwitting users to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, the company's cavalier privacy features, lack of foresight, and lax data permissions structures made the scandal possible.
He delivers it through USB devices that he scatters around the convention center, making it easy for unwitting professionals to pick up and stick right into their computers, computers with all those spreadsheets and proprietary client lists.
We believe that future campaigns will be compounded by the employment of witting or unwitting U.S. Persons through whom these state actors will filter their propaganda, in order to circumvent detection by social platforms and law enforcement.
A disco chain that ignited a boom in similar clubs more than 30 years ago, Maharaja clubs have reopened across Japan over the last five years to cater to nostalgic baby boomers, curious millennials and unwitting tourists.
As do the actual NASA employees who appear onscreen, unwitting dupes of Mr. Johnson and his crew, who schmoozed their way into the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Texas under the guise of making a documentary.
You want to actually take a stand which says, especially for a certain set of people who are unwitting victims of all the economic changes we have imposed on them, let's do something very real and specific.
Could any presidential candidate who wants to be elected seem to publicly support Russian espionage against America, and take positions so extreme that a former acting CIA director calls him "an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation"?
In the intervening space between 2012's The Heist and This Unruly Mess, Macklemore became a father, a husband, a millionaire, and the unwitting flashpoint for a dialogue about black erasure and white visibility in minority spaces.
But the billions of dollars in illicit gold processed through the scheme are impossible to trace, meaning most of it is still out there, owned by unwitting buyers in the form of jewelry, coins or gold bars.
As twisted by the entertainment industry for its own sentimental purposes, the butterfly effect dictates that any small action, usually on the part of an unwitting human, can change the course of a seemingly unrelated person's life.
MADRID — Nearly 50 years ago, Inés Madrigal was taken from her parents, an unwitting participant in a scheme that started under Spanish dictator Francisco Franco's regime as a way of removing infants from families that opposed him.
The academy said it would focus on rebuilding public trust, on restoring a reputation tarnished by a wide-ranging scandal that has divided Sweden's normally consensual society and even drawn in the royal family as unwitting players.
Lawmakers and former colleagues were left to wonder how an experienced and scrupulous lawyer known as being apolitical allowed himself to be drawn into a highly politicized firing, either as a willing participant or an unwitting accomplice.
Release date: TBASynopsis: A veteran D.C. journalist loses the thread of her own narrative when a guilt-propelled errand for her father thrusts her from byline to unwitting subject in the very story she's trying to break.
Near the end of Daryl Gregory's funny and charming new novel, "Spoonbenders," Teddy Telemachus — widower, con artist, card mechanic and unwitting patriarch of a family of psychics — tells a boy that what he does isn't real magic.
Mueller has also indicted Russian Internet "trolls," not directly employed by the Russian government, for using fake American personas to communicate with "unwitting" Trump aides and U.S. individuals as they gathered information on the American political landscape.
The vector is our unwitting input, which charges the system with every click, share and purchase — for example, whenever we want something and want it to be delivered as soon as possible to wherever we are located.
But there is good news for the President: He wasn't indicted, nor were any of the "unwitting individuals associated with the Trump Campaign" who cooperated with the Russian operatives in sabotaging the American election (indictment, paragraph 6).
And about that favorite presidential mantra, "no proof of collusion," the indictment actually suggests that there was possible collusion but of an "unwitting" and therefore non-criminal nature -- at least according to what we know so far.
I've walked this concourse in three directions hoping that some unwitting clerk at the newsstand has put out an early copy of Don Winslow's "The Border," the end of his trilogy about this nation's war on drugs.
Long held as rumor, it's now well known that in the 19663s and '21966s, the CIA helped fund and promote the work of unwitting American Abstract Expressionists — like Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning — around the world. Why?
For example, there's a section that allows researchers to waive the requirement for "informed consent" in certain circumstances, which makes it seem like scientists are going to be able to unleash all sorts of experiments on unwitting patients.
According to the Washington Post, the company's Digital Crimes Unit believed that the fake sites might have been designed to hack the computers of unwitting visitors (or victims) who clicked on what they believed to be 'real' websites.
Why—particularly at a time when the US and UK are prioritizing cooperation on cybersecurity issues with the private sector—would the government go after the unwitting hero of the public-private effort to contain WannaCry in May?
The unwitting calls and messages from Giuliani, colloquially called "butt-dials," come as sources tell CNN that Giuliani has been approaching defense attorneys for possible representation following escalating reports regarding a federal investigation into his dealings in Ukraine.
In an open letter addressing FCC chairman Ajit Pai, Schneiderman writes that his office has spent six months investigating who submitted hundreds of thousands of identical anti-net neutrality comments under the names and addresses of unwitting Americans.
Unwitting buyers have been left with forged paintings that were promoted as undiscovered Modernist masterpieces, counterfeit wines and even an apparently faulty estate plan that caused a $2.7 billion — yes, billion — tax bill from the Internal Revenue Service.
While watching, though, you may wonder if the action is actually set in a prison — or in some twisted and immersive video game in which people can exert their power over a group of unwitting and powerless targets.
No wonder Secretary of State [Madeleine] Albright said that Donald Trump has been turned into a 'useful idiot' by the Russians and Former Acting Director of the CIA Michael [Morell] concluded he's 'an unwitting agent' of the Russians.
MANILA (Reuters) - Some rights groups may have become "unwitting tools" of drug lords in the Philippines to undermine the president, his spokesman said on Monday, a statement that Human Rights Watch said was "shameful" and risked provoking violence.
These men built careers exploiting the women and men over whom they had power, but they also involved the rest of us in their predation, turning us into unwitting accomplices who consumed their art and lined their pockets.
"You owe your users full information regarding when, where, and how they may have been unwitting participants in Russia's campaign to sow division and spread disinformation in the United States," Blumenthal wrote in letters to the companies' CEOs.
Brother to be unwitting bomber The would-be attackers planned to place the IED on an Etihad Airways flight on July 15 but "at no stage did the IED breach airline security," the Australian Federal Police's Phelan said.
Smith, of course, was an unwitting participant in another debatable move made by the Knicks, who sent him to the Cavaliers last season in a three-team, multiplayer deal that was largely a salary dump for the Knicks.
Gag orders Speaking of which, one could hardly discuss the PBMs without mentioning the ugly practice of using gag orders on pharmacies and other potential whistle-blowers to keep their unwitting customers in the dark about ripoff copays.
And by leaving most of his heinous acts off screen, Berlinger (who also has a Bundy documentary, "Conversations With a Killer," on Netflix) is apparently relying on unwitting audiences being as devastated by his guilt as poor Liz.
Among other things, agents discussed with Page how Russia may have been molding him to become a witting or unwitting informant for Moscow's intelligence agents, an effort that may have been ramped up when he joined the campaign.
It did not concede that D.J. lacks the mental powers of a normal, 37-year-old adult, or that Anna could have been the unwitting author of his typed-out messages, through a sort of Ouija-board effect.
In his book "Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit" (2011), the essayist Joseph Epstein deconstructed Ms. Birstein's account of the emotional and, as she described it, unwitting physical abuse by Mr. Kazin (knocking her down and leaving bloody scratch marks).
Mike Pence jumped to Donald Trump's defense Friday after the former acting director of the Central Intelligence Agency denounced the Republican nominee as an "unwitting agent" of Russian President Vladimir Putin's operation to co-opt the presidential election.
" A month later, an exposé on Harvey Weinstein in The New York Times described how he conscripted others to enable his abuse: "Harvey Weinstein built his complicity machine out of the witting, the unwitting and those in between.
If ya don't know ... in the very first episode of the show, Jane -- played by Gina Rodriguez -- accidentally gets pregnant via artificial insemination, and the unwitting biological father is her former teenage crush, Rafael -- played by Justin Baldoni.
Petrobras' decision not to cut ties with Seaview - despite evidence turned up by its own probe that something was amiss - is a case that challenges the company's oft-repeated narrative that it was an unwitting victim of corruption.
Ten mere episodes is just not enough time to get to know Joe, his unwitting love interest Beck, and all the creepy hijinks that ensue when a toxically masculine stalker starts killing people in order to get the girl.
Earlier that day, Nguyen, who worked for the Olympic helicopter tour company, had been hired to fly them to Quebec City, though he quickly became an unwitting participant in one of the most brazen crimes ever committed in Canada.
The Russians ran multiple Facebook pages designed to look like they were tied to Black Lives Matter and paid Facebook thousands of rubles to target ads at African Americans and even recruited unwitting black activists to work for them.
Still, the confirmation of Mobley's life as an unwitting kidnapping victim set up a series of thorny entanglements for her and her loved ones — between those who raised her and those she had been stolen from for so long.
Although the accounts supported the protests at Standing Rock, BuzzFeed News did not find evidence the group had contacted activists to organize protests similar to what was successfully done in Charlotte, North Carolina, with unwitting Black Lives Matter activists.
Morell, who cast Trump as an unwitting agent of Putin in a New York Times op-ed last week, said on ABC's "This Week" that he's comfortable with Clinton after seeing her in action in President Barack Obama's administration.
The dud bomb, which may have been disabled by two unwitting thieves, reportedly had Rahami's fingerprints all over it, including on duct tape, a cell phone that was used as a timing mechanism, and on the pressure cooker itself.
But it also claims that by making images easy to download, Google has created a world of unwitting criminals: "Accidental pirates," who don't realize they're infringing copyright by downloading and using images that they have no legal right to.
After a fipronil scandal broke last summer, Dutch authorities identified the source as a small supplier of cleaning products that had sold them to unwitting producers as a more efficient way to fend off red mites in poultry stables.
As more people die and pass on titles to unwitting or unwilling relatives—the number of deaths in Japan is expected to peak at 1.67m in 2040—the growing swathes of unclaimed land could overwhelm the state, he fears.
Henrietta Lacks was the unwitting donor of the first immortal cell line The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, based on author Rebecca Skloot's bestselling book of the same name, has reportedly been a passion project of Winfrey's for years.
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump over the weekend promoted a Twitter account suspected of being a fake profile -- an incident that has shined a spotlight on the dark underbelly of social media that exists solely to trick unwitting users.
Still, the confirmation of her life as an unwitting kidnapping victim set up a series of thorny entanglements for her and her loved ones — between those who raised her and those she had been stolen from for so long.
That's partly because she has not led her party in an election—she took over the job from Cameron, the unwitting architect of Brexit, when he stepped down in disgrace—and partly because Brexit itself has been so divisive.
No matter what political or moral slant a particular media outlet, network, station, news source has, the constant editorializing, personal and emotional opining, sometimes subtle or unwitting as it may be, does influence the viewer, listener, and reader's opinion.
But my favorite passage so far ­— the one that finally made me cry — was this, recorded in a moment's happy aftermath and left as an unwitting legacy: It was a Monday evening in 1911, near the end of summer.
In each of the three attacks, a cardboard package was left at the front of a private residence and exploded after an unwitting victim picked it up or tried to open it, Austin Police Chief Brian Manley told reporters.
The term "snake oil" — now a catch-all for any scam good with a flashy sales pitch — originated in the days when con artists would roam from town to town by wagon, shilling useless health elixirs to unwitting marks.
But recent revelations that a firm called Cambridge Analytica harvested the personal information of 50 million unwitting Facebook users in 2015 has created new sense of urgency for those hoping for some modicum of control over their online life.
Replaying Mr. Trump's use of a vulgarism to describe Senator Ted Cruz, the ad's creators bypassed the usual bleep for a dubbed "meow," with the emoji covering Mr. Trump's mouth, perhaps to spare the sensibilities of unwitting lip-readers.
In Adult Swim's new, partially rotoscoped science fiction comedy series, Dream Corp LLC, this compulsion to plumb the depths of the mind gets explored by an unhinged technologist and a number of assistants, including a robot and unwitting patients.
In Season 3, set in 1985, the Indiana town that's the unwitting gateway to a threatening alternate dimension gets a new mall — perhaps a strategic adjustment to the reality that the show's young stars are now in their midteens.
Directed and designed by Knud Adams, this is a frequently comic, graphically foul, progressively unsettling story of one man's self-obsession and self-harm, interwoven with an almost unwitting confession of the grave damage he's doing as a physician.
Mr. Trump's defenders, desperate to exculpate him, seized on a single word — "unwitting" — that the indictment used to describe certain "members, volunteers and supporters of the Trump campaign involved in local community outreach" who had interacted with the Russians.
Last year, Facebook became embroiled in an international scandal when news broke that an app created by a third-party developer had collected data on millions of unwitting users, which was later obtained by the political firm Cambridge Analytica.
But that undersells what is an unwitting wider influence: With every answered question and shared strategy, they act as screen-named guides to a lucrative world governed by "Megabonus" promotions and fine print, category changes and free night certificates.
The same is not true online, and while companies like Facebook are taking steps toward transparency, it seems odd that a private company last seen being unwitting accomplice to foreign election interference should be the vanguard of that change.
The investigation had so far painted automakers as unwitting victims of a defect linked to at least 11 deaths in the U.S. • Denmark is one of few countries where almost everyone ready and willing to work has a job.
The scam appears to be an updated version of a classic internet hustle that involves "spoofing" a legitimate website—creating an identical copy—that unwitting users can be fooled into trusting with their personal information or credit card number.
An intelligence asset might be unwitting — a "useful idiot," as we say in the intelligence world — but that doesn't diminish the threat that asset might be to national security, nor negate that he may actively have been used to some end.
Yesterday's episode of Silicon Valley (the show) treated us to another, when Erlich Bachman—Aviato founder, Bachmanity partner, and all-around palapa-immolating gasbag—left his incubator to take up (unwitting, long-term, possibly indentured) residence in a Tibetan opium den.
The Clinton campaign, however, maintained that the same conclusion should apply to the hacked Podesta emails and repeatedly accused the Trump campaign of relying on Russian assistance and the media of operating as essentially unwitting dupes of a Russo-Trumpian plot.
The company prohibits creators from "maliciously recording someone without their consent," but it doesn't seem to have applied that to videos of people being filmed in public, even when the cameraperson is trying to get a rise out of unwitting subjects.
Police had accused the two of planning two terrorist attacks - one involving the bomb, hidden in the luggage of an unwitting third brother, and the other that included a chemical gas attack on his flight to Abu Dhabi in July 2017.
" Writing amid the public turmoil flowing from the Vietnam War and attacks on corporations, he said businessmen who embrace social responsibility were "unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society these past decades.
"In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation," wrote former deputy CIA director Michael Morrell, who now supports Clinton, in a New York Times article in August.
Talos believes that the versatile code is designed to serve as a multipurpose spy tool, and also creates a network of hijacked routers that serve as unwitting VPNs, potentially hiding the attackers' origin as they carry out other malicious activities.
Before Modest Mouse shared the charts with Britney Spears and rubbed elbows with Orange County's fictional tween elites, 1997's Lonesome Crowded West became an unwitting primer for emo newcomers, and one that strayed from the quickly forming tropes of heartbreak.
So the charging documents in the Brown case positions the banks as unwitting dupes of the scheme, a reversal from the consistent determination by agents in the field that they were fully aware of and in fact responsible for the situation.
The Great War, also known as "the war to end all wars," engulfed an unwitting world because the leaders of the great powers did not understand the enormity of suffering they were about to unleash when they stumbled needlessly into conflict.
It tried an unusual method of sticking it to the man: It opened a shell restaurant called the Blue Donkey, registered it for orders through unwitting food delivery services and created fake menu items that were stand-ins for campaign contributions.
Protecting sensitive data from unwanted access or surveillance is an essential part of working in the modern world, but it is doubly important for those whose work on behalf of human rights has made them an unwitting target of the state.
The class action complaint alleges that since at least February 2017, Facebook failed to disclose in public securities filings that the company allowed outside firms such as Cambridge Analytica to access the personal data of millions of unwitting Facebook users.
A professor at the University of Colorado's Colorado Springs (UCCS) campus oversaw a project that photographed more than 6900,2628 unwitting students, faculty members and others in public more than six years ago in an effort to improve facial recognition technology.
She's made no secret of her feeling that morning sex improves her mood all day—and for this reason, among others, she has always had my enthusiastic consent to take advantage of my unwitting tumescence before running out into the dawn.
Sometimes they'd even pose for a quick photo: While many of their unwitting victims found the gag pretty funny, others were pretty freaked out and complained that the kids could "give someone a heart attack" on the community's Facebook page.
MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine law enforcement agencies still have no proof yet on allegations made by two government officials that human rights groups may have become the "unwitting tools" of drug lords, police and drug enforcement agency officials said on Tuesday.
With the ongoing gentrification of NYC seen as an unwitting or targeted assault on nightlife, depending on your viewpoint, I wanted to collate an unspoken history of going out in this city, of the clubland portals that are no more.
While some of the money was siphoned off along the way to keep the pill mill (and its largely unwitting participants) in motion, the bulk of it was hoarded by Le Roux to fund the rest of his illicit operations.
"I think there's been a change in attitude, a slight change in attitude, maybe an unwitting change in attitude," said Don Siegelman, a Democratic former governor who proposed a state lottery, only to have voters soundly reject it in 1999.
The suit is the latest legal maneuver for Russian athletes and sports officials who have been rebuffed at nearly every turn in their effort to dispute their involvement — witting or unwitting — in one of global sports' most notorious cheating scandals.
" Kate Manne, an assistant professor of philosophy at Cornell University, recently noted the trend, writing that "the evidence is mounting that these patterns are the work of sexism and misogyny — albeit often unconscious, unwitting and the result of implicit bias.
Several VCs groused that dozens of firms now descend like hawks on the unwitting but fortunate target startup, angling for a term sheet and willing to give up valuation and preferences left and right for any chance at the cap table.
The unwitting temptress, Yelena, is played by Rosalind Eleazar, a commendably robust, earthy presence; it's a shame that Aimee Lou Wood, as Vanya's self-deflating niece, Sonya, seems so awkward opposite her at the crucial end of the first half.
The famous handkerchief here is a bit of gold bling, a necklace that falls into Iago's hands through the unwitting help of his wife, Emilia, and is discovered in the possession of Cassio, leading to the usual pileup of corpses.
A wiser choice would have been to fund properly the refugee camps in countries near Syria, thus avoiding both the issue of economic migrants masquerading as refugees and the unwitting importation of the terrorism that currently afflicts the Islamic world.
News Analysis WASHINGTON — A week ago, President Trump was accused of being a tool for the Russians, an unwitting agent of influence, so full of admiration that he defended President Vladimir V. Putin against critics who called him a killer.
MUMBAI — The police on Saturday detained a 24-year-old man suspected of running a multimillion-dollar fraud from a network of Indian call centers, tricking hundreds of unwitting Americans into believing they owed money to the Internal Revenue Service.
As we've seen in the recent past -- Marco Rubio's water grab, Bobby Jindal's unwitting "Kenneth the Page" impersonation -- it's a lot harder than it looks, even for people who make a living speaking in front of large numbers of people.
Even if we take Apple's word that the exploit was only operational for two months, that's potentially tens of thousands (or more) of unwitting victims who are members of a vulnerable population that is currently being targeted by a repressive government.
You watch both movies in a kind of fascinated horror at how easy it was for McFarland to create a network of what appears to be unwitting co-conspirators to help him plan an experience that wound up losing $24 million.
He was also shown that the gun had been altered so it could not use real bullets — information that enabled him to go on without fearing that he might be the unwitting victim of a sudden Agatha Christie-style theatrical murder.
The litigation around Pokémon Go has also brought up the idea that, even if the AR itself doesn't constitute trespassing, it could prompt users of the app to trespass and cause a nuisance to the unwitting hosts of AR Charmanders and Squirtles.
Photo: GettyTwo US senators have some suspicions about smart TVs, and they're asking the Federal Trade Commission to look into the data collection practices employed by TV manufacturers to see if the internet-connected devices are quietly sucking up information from unwitting consumers.
In a northern Texas district court, Lemons argued that he wasn't part of the pharmacy's inner circle, didn't share its profits, and was merely "a conscientious, yet unwitting, pharmacist working in a 'climate of activity that reeks of something foul,'" according to records.
Horizon's world is rich and unstructured enough that players can turn its robo-dinosaurs into unwitting members of a futuristic fight club never intended by the game's creators — but it favors carefully curated missions set against a largely static and constrained world.
A police report says officers used surveillance camera footage to determine that another woman in the lot gave Damante money and went inside the store while Damante put the 40 grams (1.4 ounces) of pot into the unwitting woman&aposs unlocked car.
But while security experts immediately wondered whether Find My would also offer a new opportunity to track unwitting users, Apple says it built the feature on a unique encryption system carefully designed to prevent exactly that sort of tracking—even by Apple itself.
Things didn't turn out so well for Jaws the snapping turtle: Apparently Crosland didn't have the proper permitting to own the reptile in the first place, so the unwitting center of this whole batshit saga was euthanized by the Idaho Department of Agriculture.
In theory, it would be easy for a criminal to use ill-gotten cash to buy in-game currencies in a game such as Clash of Clans, then turn around and sell that currency to an unwitting third party for clean money.
He was convinced that were he to run, he would go down in history as an unwitting accessory to putting Trump or Cruz in office by spoiling the election and throwing the fate of the country to the GOP-led House of Representatives.
As The Verge's Josh Dzieza wrote in his seminal feature on rating systems: The rating systems used by these companies have turned customers into unwitting and sometimes unwittingly ruthless middle managers, more efficient than any boss a company could hope to hire.
Although it's believed all the major phone carriers have been told to feed their call logs to the government, a top secret court order leaked by whistleblower Edward Snowden only confirmed Verizon — which owns TechCrunch — as an unwitting participant in the program.
The US's trade watchdog issued warning letters to 12 app developers with 15 apps in the Google Play store for spying on unwitting users, asking them to disclose to customers that they are being tracked, FTC senior attorney Kristin Cohen confirmed to Motherboard.
During the months he spent living at the school, Mr. Ray "laid the groundwork for psychological conditioning that would eventually lead these young adults to become unwitting victims of sexual exploitation, verbal and physical abuse, extortion, forced labor and prostitution," Mr. Sweeney said.
Or, if you're the unwitting homeowner suddenly cast in the role of playing host to a version of history that no longer exists, you may wonder if these visitors are interlopers trying to undermine your claim to the place you call home.
It soon became clear that Ms. Issachar, 26, had become an unwitting player in a proposed international prisoner swap involving a Russian hacker who was facing extradition from Israel to the United States on computer crime charges, and whom Russia wanted back.
" The evidence, which appears to have been collected as part of a surveillance operation on an unwitting target, reveals that "an individual believed to have been co-located with Ameen in Turkey during the pertinent timeframe claims that Ameen never left Turkey.
We also learned that the FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation of Trump to determine whether he was an agent (witting or unwitting) of Russia and that Trump allegedly took steps to conceal the substance of his talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Millian, reported to be an unwitting source who didn't know his conversations would make their way to Steele, has denied being a source at all for the dossier or knowing any of the information that was attributed to him in press reports.
The coffin of Nedjemankh, which dates back to the first century B.C., came to New York two years ago by way of a global art underground network before being sold to an unwitting Metropolitan Museum of Art for $4 million, authorities said.
The Department of Justice announced on Friday indictments against 13 Russian nationals and three Russian entities for allegedly interfering in the 2016 US election, including enlisting "unwitting" Americans to coordinate political activities and using social media to support Trump and disparage Hillary Clinton.
That is to say, if we just use our ability to manipulate narrative and construct meaning as a way to gain power for ourselves and to grow our personal brands, then we'll never be more than unwitting missionaries, doing magic tricks to dazzle the crowd.
Police in Wisconsin allege a 28-year-old babysitter killed a 2-month-old boy before concealing his death by dressing him in bulky winter clothes, strapping him into a car seat and pretending he was alive while handing him over to his unwitting parents.
Intelligence officers use individuals or businesses that are not part of the government but are, at arm's length, working on behalf of the government as cutouts, and they can develop much more complex cover stories by using witting and unwitting foreign agents and front companies.
But the concerns of the European security officers are a reminder that the US government's interest in contacts between Trump campaign aides and Russia began as a counterintelligence probe, with Obama-era CIA director John Brennan stressing that such contacts might have been unwitting.
Here's the current setup: One camera and a mic pointed behind the bar, one camera near tables at the front of the restaurant, one near the back by a small stage (for open mic nights, karaoke, comedy) and one outside the restaurant, filming unwitting passersby.
The former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morell, hardly known as a political partisan, on Friday published an op-ed in The New York Times suggesting Trump had become an unwitting agent of the former KGB agent in the Kremlin, President Vladimir Putin.
The Virginia senator referenced former acting CIA director Michael Morell's assessment that Trump has been recruited as "an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation," pointing to his foreign business dealings, including one with an associate of Putin to bring the Miss Universe pageant to Moscow.
Babel's legacy of multilingualism has led to bloody consequences more than to sanguine peace: mutual incomprehensibility can create unwitting, mortal danger (as in the 2006 movie, Babel) as well as war (as among the monotheistic cultures derived from the Abrahamic story that follows Babel).
It should be upfront about its involvement, make certain that users understand what data they're giving up, stop researching teens or at the very least verify the consent of their parents and avoid slurping up sensitive information or data about a user's unwitting friends.
Over the weekend, Maravilla tweeted that he'd hung a fake poster of himself and his friend, Christian Toledo, on a previously empty wall at McDonald's and that, after 51 days, it was still watching over unwitting customers as they picked at their Bacon Smokehouse Burgers.
Malkandi's story flummoxes the crew, who, through patient interviews and court documents, try to piece together the real story of how this affable suburban dad came to be an unwitting accomplice, two degrees removed from a high-level al Qaeda operative and bin Laden associate.
In fact, the president's record of capitulating to Russia is so lengthy that it's prompted current and former spies to say they believe the US president is either functioning as an unwitting "Russian asset" or as a "useful idiot" for Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Responding to the criticism, Gary Oldenburger, the county attorney for Wapello County, defended the sentence in a statement dated Thursday, presenting Mr. Grooms as the unwitting lackey of child pornographers who tricked him into the assault, as they had done to hundreds of other children.
The Justice Department's inspector general, Michael Horowitz, is looking into the FBI's application for a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant to surveil a top Trump campaign aide, Carter Page, who was suspected of acting as an unwitting foreign agent during and after the 2016 campaign.
The Emmy-winning HBO comedy aired its finale on Sunday, after a build-up in which former president and current presidential candidate Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) accepted help from the Chinese government, which reached out to her through the most unwitting of third parties.
When he discovered Metallica at the tender age of 12 (and came across the works of H. P. Lovecraft shortly thereafter), that early exposure unwitting provided the seed for what would become a lifelong appreciation for the darker arts—and most pointedly, death metal.
It preyed on unsuspecting staff members who were more interested in capturing the enthusiasm of supporters of their unorthodox nominee and did not envision the seemingly far-fetched possibility that Russians might enlist them as unwitting players in a scheme to undermine American democracy.
This includes the perhaps unwitting anti-Semitism of college professors who refuse to write letters of recommendation for students wanting to study abroad in Israel or who seek to suspend study-abroad programs to Israel entirely, without thinking of sanctioning, say, China or Russia.
But on Friday, when a Russian court sentenced her to seven and a half years in prison on drug possession and smuggling charges, it became clear that Ms. Issachar, an Israeli-American citizen, had become an unwitting player in a proposed international prisoner swap.
The unit eventually expanded its research, changed its name to MK-ULTRA and shifted to the United States, where Gottlieb worked with a sadistic narcotics officer in opening a "national security whorehouse" to dose unwitting victims being serviced by prostitutes on the C.I.A. payroll.
Johnson, the former 11-year-old unwitting bride who is now fighting for Florida to set a minimum marriage age (there is none now), says that her family attended a conservative Pentecostal church and that other girls of a similar age periodically also married.
Using the journey his characters eventually make from Godalming to London, he presents another juxtaposition, country and city, slyly reminding commuters that those who seek to escape urban filth and chaos act as the city's unwitting "agents of expansion" and thus never escape at all.
Yet, despite these welcome modifications to a dress style that served as an unwitting tutorial on how not to wear a suit, Mr. Spicer has stuck to his attention-grabbing neckwear, ties not only carnival-barker garish but also manifestly wrong in other ways.
Website-builder Wix launched its 60-second big game commercial on YouTube last week, starring "The Expendables" actor Jason Statham and "Wonder Woman" star Gal Gadot, who fend off various attackers in a restaurant, as unwitting chef Felix dons headphones and works on his new website.
" Morell, who served in the CIA for more than 30 years, thrust himself into partisan politics this summer when he endorsed Hillary Clinton's candidacy in a New York Times op-ed in which he also referred to Trump as "an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.
Or perhaps he's adopted a "better safe than sorry" attitude, as many men have since the sexual harassment reckoning—which could cast at least a little doubt on Reeves' altruistic intentions, since this attitude tends to cast men as unwitting, innocent victims to women's irrational, predatory motives.
Lorena is timely not only in the sense that conversations about sexual abuse and assault have taken center stage over the past year, but also because anxiety about immigrants taking advantage of the system and of poor, unwitting white Americans is currently at a fever pitch.
Unwitting fans who hadn't read the tea leaves of opaque app permissions took to social media to vent their anger at finding they'd been co-opted into an unofficial LaLiga piracy police force as the app repurposed their smartphone sensors to rat out their favorite local bars.
It's not because we know exactly what he's gone through—the vacant sing-along chorus of "Now Only" only underscores that ("People get cancer and die / People get hit by trucks and die")—but because the sound of skin is empirical proof of our own unwitting perseverance.
The jarring contrast between life and death — between 3D people caught in a slaughter and their unwitting expressions in a photograph, the living tragedy versus the cold facts in your journal — lends an eeriness that you won't find in any other murder mystery, video game or otherwise.
It can also mean covertly disrupting or neutralizing the activity in some way, which can be as simple as showing up unannounced in US offices to warn unwitting Americans that they might have interacted with—or are about to interact with—a suspected undercover intelligence officer.
Jake Thomas Patterson, the 21-year-old accused of kidnapping Closs and killing her parents, is currently in custody for allegedly keeping Closs prisoner in his secluded cabin for months—during which time he reportedly threw a holiday party for his unwitting relatives in the house.
"I think the general modern opinion in the modern world is that consent should be obtained," she said, citing the evolution of medical ethics and a growing recognition that unclaimed bodies, like unwitting subjects of medical research, have often been people marginalized or exploited in life.
Days after the wedding, The Cut published a piece (which it took down on Wednesday) labeling her a "global scam" and alleging that the younger Jonas was "trapped" in the marriage -- an unwitting part of a strategic career move passing as a marriage and ambition as love.
New York (CNN)Suspected Russian-run Facebook pages that were taken offline this week were used to organize protests across the country and convinced unwitting Americans to work with them -- in one instance, CNN has learned, even sending an activist a megaphone and a bouquet of roses.
The finding is further evidence that geneticist He Jiankui, who used the CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing tool to engineer this mutation in twin babies last year, acted irresponsibly and without a sufficient understanding of how the modification might affect the future health of his unwitting test subjects.
Democratic investigators "have uncovered facts yet to be made public, and that they hope to make Americans more fully aware of the extent to which the Russians manipulated the US presidential election with the help of some Trump officials, witting or unwitting," according to NBC's Ken Dilanian.
There's a fantastic sense of momentum and fatalism to the editing of the final sequence: We cut from Thumper getting tied up in Shark Stadium to an unwitting Logan starting the demolition to Weevil in confession, and at once you know exactly what happened and why.
Whether forced or unwitting, journalists never were intended in the Founding Fathers' minds to be state's witnesses on a regular basis, in part because of the chilling effect such collusion can have on a news outlet's ability to be viewed as impartial, independent arbiters of truth.
The American government should also work to level the information playing field, increasing its investment in public broadcasters and demanding a hefty financial commitment from companies like Facebook and Twitter — the unwitting agents of Russia's information war — to support the proliferation of local, citizen-focused journalism.
All of the energy the public has invested in this person — the time we spent taking his art seriously, laughing at his jokes, growing close to his persona, processing our lives through his stories — curdles into the grotesque realization of our unwitting complicity in his abuse.
Asking the Jets (0-4) to suddenly snap into some form of relevance is too much, but with Sam Darnold, the team's promising second-year quarterback — and unwitting subject of a fairly amusing meme — back from a bout with mononucleosis, they should at least rise above embarrassing.
He was also known as a master of the put-on, convincing unwitting audiences at official events that he was a legitimate speaker, like a chief executive or an ambassador, and then slowly veering from the reasonable into the absurd before revealing that he was a comedian.
The Justice Department's criminal investigation into Takata's rupture-prone airbags has so far painted automakers as unwitting victims duped by a rogue supplier that manipulated safety data to hide a deadly defect, linked to at least 22000 deaths and over 22003 injuries in the United States.

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