Police and crime commissioners, as elected watchdogs, also muddy the waters.
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Those issues can muddy the waters of communication in any medium.
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Everything—even Trump's attempts to muddy the waters with Tony Podesta!
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He should not muddy the waters by discussing Bill Clinton's sexual history.
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Muddy the waters with false accusations that are impossible to fully disprove.
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And don't be distracted by his latest attempts to muddy the waters.
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SoftBank's involvement could further muddy the waters in terms of who's in power.
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If the strategy is to muddy the waters, there are signs it's working.
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In stepped Twitter's head of safety, Del Harvey, to further muddy the waters.
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After she did, Pompeo went on national television to muddy the waters again.
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Mr. Regeni's supporters dismissed the issue as another attempt to muddy the waters.
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The point is to muddy the waters, to divert attention from actual scandals.
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Other selection measures bring in subjectivity and personal bias to muddy the waters.
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Still, the individual stories somewhat muddy the waters, feeling more anecdotal and less illuminating.
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I Love You, Daddy doesn't just continue to muddy the waters around those issues.
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There is no need to muddy the waters over the responsibilities of central banks.
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When in doubt, they fib and hope Fox News will help them muddy the waters.
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AT&T only needed to bring in its own competing study to muddy the waters.
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Their real goal is to diminish America's standing and muddy the waters of moral clarity.
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So others conclude that it is Giuliani's strategic intention to obfuscate, to muddy the waters.
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But he possibly has a way to muddy the waters and pretend that he does.
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One long-standing answer is to muddy the waters, and make elections about white resentment.
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The answer is that this and other conspiracy theories allow Trump to continually muddy the waters.
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" Trump supporters described Democrats' focus on obstruction of justice as an attempt to "muddy the waters.
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That, of course, helps "helps muddy the waters," on who's behind the operations, according to Flossman.
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And Donald Trump's half-assed attempt to muddy the waters is to tweet about the election.
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Muddy the waters and discredit the ongoing investigations into what Russia did in the 2016 election.
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But congressional Republicans are actively working to muddy the waters in anticipation of an obstruction charge.
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But Trump was able to successfully wield misconduct accusations against Bill Clinton to muddy the waters.
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She says a tantra session like Joyner's that includes intercourse can muddy the waters of consent.
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The Democrats did this on purpose to try to muddy the waters, and to defend the indefensible.
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The assorted views of regional bank presidents and board members in recent weeks muddy the waters further.
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To further muddy the waters, individual men and women don't always react like stereotypical men and women.
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This is, of course, a transparent attempt by Moore to both buy time and muddy the waters.
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But it originated as a euphemism, deliberately deployed by its proponents to try to muddy the waters.
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But all it does is muddy the waters and undermine reality and reduce everything to spectacle and show.
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A senior intel official accused him of trying to "muddy the waters" about the nature of the investigation.
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We must not allow his persistent efforts to muddy the waters obscure the resolution of those urgent inquiries.
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" She riffed on the travails of industry dating: "You do not want to muddy the waters at work.
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But it could muddy the waters enough to prevent a perjury charge, which requires a precise showing of falsity.
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But if Pyongyang can muddy the waters, the pressure strategy might fall apart, and military action carries tremendous risks.
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You are both too old in my opinion (I'm 70), and you are only going to muddy the waters.
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But there's likely a higher strategic imperative in the Rosenstein drama: Continue to muddy the waters and numb the electorate.
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There are a variety of ways Russia and their intelligence officers could meddle in the process and muddy the waters.
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Pence spent much of his debate against Clinton's running mate, Tim Kaine, trying to muddy the waters and argue otherwise.
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He's trying to muddy the waters on taxes because he knows the standard Republican position on tax policy is unpopular.
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Or does that just muddy the waters even more and lead to more writers/cultures/histories that can be overlooked?
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Existing close ties between the Trump administration and Boeing, one of the largest US defense contractors, could also muddy the waters.
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And this is just the most basic level; later stages introduce a host of "wisp" abilities that further muddy the waters.
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To muddy the waters even more: A lot of the probiotics on the shelves don't contain the bacteria they claim to.
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Unfortunately for everyone, AT&T still plans to muddy the waters by putting a fake "22019G" indicator onto its 4G phones.
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Repealing the individual mandate could muddy the waters of tax reform as the GOP searches for a much-needed legislative win.
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When Trump has waded into this government funding/immigration fight, he's managed to muddy the waters rather than make them clearer.
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We're treated to a new point of view to start this week, or to muddy the waters, with Sierra (Emily Browning).
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"They want to muddy the waters," said an immigration advocate who is familiar with White House conversations with lawmakers and activists.
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Buttigieg has also defended Hunter Biden and argued that Democrats should not allow Trump and the Republicans to muddy the waters.
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So, I think he&aposs trying to muddy the waters a little bit and keep promoting this takedown of the Mueller team.
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Musk's comments today have the potential to further muddy the waters with respect to how self-driving cars are discussed in public.
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The complaint against Papadopoulos, though, presented a different problem for the president's allies trying to muddy the waters between Trump and Clinton.
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If the privacy issue comes up, Facebook is happy to "muddy the waters," Mr. Miller said over drinks at an Oakland, Calif.
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Moscow has long used its intelligence agencies and propaganda machine to muddy the waters of public debate, casting doubts over established facts.
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Of course, if Democrats are unhappy with the FBI's results, they will simply call it inadequate and seek to muddy the waters.
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Most to the point: How should reporters, knowing that the initial wiretapping accusation is meritless, treat Trump's ensuing efforts to muddy the waters?
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Instead, they worked to muddy the waters by raising questions about Cohen's character, even accusing him of lying during his testimony on Wednesday.
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The variety of interest groups involved in the decision, and the fate of state efforts like the Missouri law, all muddy the waters.
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Or the person who planted it on Mr. Skripal's front door may have intentionally left it at another location, just to muddy the waters.
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It may be an intentional attempt to muddy the waters, but it shouldn't have any impact on any legitimate investigation into the Trump campaign.
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Even if they fail to persuade the public, they can muddy the waters and turn this constitutional conflict into another case of partisan bickering.
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Now, less than two weeks after those hopes were raised, an interview has appeared to dash those hopes — or at least muddy the waters.
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It could help muddy the waters of the criticism Trump has faced; it could equally be seen as undignified or irrelevant by many voters.
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Well, the head of the guy quoted in this story who said he tried to "muddy the waters," which I think most PR people do.
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And I think these conflicts will muddy the waters and ultimately undercut the credibility of whatever he comes with as it relates to the president.
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And Mueller's ineffective response to the Republican assault, together with the forgettable Democratic strategy, seemed (at least to this watcher) to muddy the waters considerably.
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To further muddy the waters, Nick Xenophon, a former independent federal senator, is fielding candidates for SA-Best, his new state party, in most seats.
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Cruz's immigration record came under the spotlight in November after Rubio sought to muddy the waters by spotlighting the Texas Republican's position on legal immigration.
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The U.S. cybersecurity industry is not well served by unsubstantiated claims about the trustworthiness of security products, which only muddy the waters and encourage blowback.
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What's she doing is simply trying to muddy the waters, give the average Trump supporter something to push back on all of the Russia talk.
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These groups, he said, support and publicize scientific studies whose results sometimes muddy the waters on contentious issues like smoking or alcohol and soda consumption.
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Investigators are wary of being lured into a trap, possibly as part of an effort by Russia or others to muddy the waters with disinformation.
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However, Graham and Cornyn both went on to muddy the waters by arguing that Hillary Clinton's campaign's funding of the Steele dossier was similarly problematic.
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I do believe there is a coordinated effort to try to muddy the waters around what Mueller is doing and try to overly confuse the situation.
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But such unforced errors during the debate will only give Clinton the ability to discredit him or muddy the waters regarding who is more trustworthy. 3.
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Speaking on the sidelines of an annual meeting of China's parliament, Wang said some outside forces were trying to muddy the waters in the disputed region.
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Biden campaign spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield on Friday called the senator's health care stance "problematic" and accused her of trying to "muddy the waters" around the issue.
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Ted Cruz, last Thursday, seeking to further muddy the waters by effectively conflating two separate charges against Kavanaugh and ignoring the Times' explanation of its actions.
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The creation of a second special counsel would almost certainly muddy the waters surrounding Mueller's investigation and could undermine it by raising questions about his evidence.
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Image: GoogleGoogle's messaging options are a mess, and it just rolled out a new tool to muddy the waters even further: Android Messages, but on the web.
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But they also knew that keeping Mr Franken in office would allow Republicans to muddy the waters with whataboutism when it came to Messrs Trump and Moore.
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Some of Trump's defenders then tried to muddy the waters by normalizing corrupt quid pro quos and claiming that Trump and the Democrats alike had made missteps.
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The strategy here is clear: to muddy the waters as much as possible, sowing doubts about the allegations in the hopes that enough voters will disbelieve them.
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Moreover, I don't think Democrats are well served by having congresspeople who muddy the waters on important issues like Russian election meddling and gerrymandering for personal gain.
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It was a good idea that, in practice, didn't work, because it really just served to muddy the waters and confuse people about what record was what.
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As with Microsoft's Surface line, the Notebook 9 offerings can be somewhat tricky to navigate, but thankfully this year's new additions don't muddy the waters any further.
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You can still try to tag him with it, but he can always muddy the waters by voicing some kind of vague desire to address the issue.
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"They want to stir the city, to muddy the waters because we stand with our state," said Ercan Emir, a barber whose shop stands by the mosque.
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They may lag a bit behind what the networks or even the AP say, but it's the cold, hard numbers with nothing else to muddy the waters.
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The president will muddy the waters, as he has with every other investigation, insisting that the facts were concocted by jealous rivals in order to undermine him.
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Democrats say the probe is designed to divert attention from the Mueller investigation onto a familiar GOP punching bag — Clinton — and muddy the waters surrounding his work.
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Some under-the-radar firms muddy the waters by helping set up loans against employee shares and use other risky methods to circumvent company restrictions on secondary trading.
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Sensing an opportunity to muddy the waters on a problematic issue and blunt Trump's attacks, Democrats are set to attack Trump and Pence over their differences on trade.
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He continually insisted Nunes shouldn't recuse himself from the Russia investigation even though Nunes very obviously colluded with the White House to muddy the waters of the inquiry.
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Top shoppers say they're hit hardest However, some shoppers say that the company is deliberately trying to muddy the waters with regard to how the service charge works.
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And as the sexual harassment allegations across the restaurant industry mount, the conversations that are surfacing reveal just how muddy the waters are in our current restaurant culture.
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To muddy the waters even further, the group is now referring to USB 3.0 as USB 3.2 Gen 1, and to USB 3.1 as USB 3.2 Gen 3.23.
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Famed attorney Alan Dershowitz told us the physical confrontation between Acosta and the intern will muddy the waters and make it tough for CNN to make its case.
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Such inquiries could always turn up new evidence, and at the very least they will further muddy the waters over what occurred in 2016 and who is responsible.
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Caroline Ghosn said media accounts about the homes were part of Nissan's and Japanese prosecutors' efforts to "muddy the waters" in a public-relations campaign against her father.
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What it actually does is muddy the waters of the fight that cuts through their afterglow, as Brianna finds out Roger knew about the fire at Fraser's Ridge.
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But another effort has also sought to muddy the waters more broadly, using fake news websites and associated bots to sow confusion about developments inside the Saudi government. Alawatanews.
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Republicans and their allies in the conservative media are using the purported controversy to muddy the waters around special counsel's Robert Mueller's ongoing investigation into potential Trump-Russia collusion.
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Authoritarians and extremists, on the other hand, often merely have to muddy the waters and weaken trust in general so that everyone is too fractured and paralyzed to act.
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It's not easy to talk about, and arguments from climate skeptics (like the Facebook comments that will inevitably show up in response to this article) always muddy the waters.
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Yet Slater's book, landing as it does in the midst of an election season in which immigrants are once again being demonized, seems destined to further muddy the waters.
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We suddenly see this concerted effort — orchestrated by Trump, and conducted outside of the White House — to smear Mueller, muddy the waters, and make the investigation a red vs.
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The goal is to muddy the waters, to throw enough doubt into people's mind so that they can't or won't object to actions that run counter to the science.
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It's a story about how far the conservative media and some congressional Republicans are willing to go to muddy the waters around Donald Trump's wildest and least defensible ideas.
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Anil Kalhan, an immigration law professor at Drexel University's Kline School of Law in Philadelphia, said there are multiple ways of interpreting Kennedy's opinion, which could muddy the waters.
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And to muddy the waters further, it all took place while DreamHost representatives were at a Justice Department hearing regarding a recent subpoena for visitors to an anti-Trump website.
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"Congress didn't need to muddy the waters by halting the penalty, which could have negatively impacted ongoing negotiations pertaining to trade and sanctions enforcement," Mr. Perdue said in a statement.
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But regardless of accuracy, O'Brien's statements Sunday have served to only further muddy the waters around Russian interference, and to what degree that country is attempting to boost any candidate.
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It is always the government's challenge in a trial to try to establish clarity, while defense teams need only muddy the waters and raise reasonable doubts to win an acquittal.
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During the run-up to the summit, China appeared reticent to muddy the waters of the first Trump-Xi summit with an agenda topic understood to be dead on arrival.
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Perhaps that is why opponents of the deal seem to muddy the waters with misleading claims of non-compliance and with unrealistic plans of improving the deal by killing it.
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The public announcement, of course, would be sufficient to give Trump material to defame Biden and muddy the waters about Russia's help in getting Trump elected in the first place.
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Theses estimates, however, do not take into account how the trade war impacts investment and spending decisions by firms and consumers while domestic policy measures also muddy the waters considerably.
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But Juan, does this romance, does this sort of muddy the waters and make her a less than an ideal poster child for journalists who are unfairly investigated by the government?
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Because Mueller decided to limit his testimony to his final investigatory report, he generally didn't push back when Republicans tried to muddy the waters, allowing them to do so with impunity. .
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Efforts to combine human input with automated posting can muddy the waters and make it harder for machine learning tools to detect the signals they are trained to locate, he said.
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He's a dog, but give our man credit for trying to muddy the waters to the point of insanity, the rhetorical farce equal of Diego Maradona in the 1986 World Cup.
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The progressive-controlled media then took over, publicizing even flimsier allegations and salacious rumors that would make the National Enquirer blush, in order to further muddy the waters surrounding his nomination.
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China's foreign minister said last week that China's resolve to protect peace and stability in the South China Sea was unshakeable, and that outside forces were attempting to muddy the waters.
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At the same time, the president is attempting to muddy the waters by seeking to discredit the FBI's team of investigators as the Russia probe moves closer to the White House.
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Pelosi's insight was that any Democratic proposal would necessarily prompt intraparty infighting and muddy the waters, while Republicans simply had no way of resolving the internal contradictions of their own position.
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Many physicians and scientists say, however, that these papers muddy the waters by drawing overly broad conclusions from earlier studies of workers who might have had no contact with asbestos brakes.
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Newspapers and independent verification groups have responded quickly with sites dedicated to verifying or debunking widely disseminated claims—but soon enough, fake fact-checkers emerged as well, hoping to muddy the waters.
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Democrats dismissed the findings as a desperate partisan attempt to smear the FBI and muddy the waters around what they view as a legitimate investigation into Trump's alleged ties to the Kremlin.
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From the start, Trump's allies have been trying to muddy the waters, spreading unfounded innuendo about the Russia probe to undermine its credibility as Mueller investigates the president for obstruction of justice.
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Critics fear the rule would muddy the waters, giving patients less clarity on what is and is not permissible and how to get help when they have been the victims of discrimination.
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The nonpartisan ballot, protected by the Harry Byrd machine for decades, had helped Democrats muddy the waters during the period of realignment when Southern conservatives went from voting for Democrats to Republicans.
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Project Veritas created a fake victim of sexual abuse to muddy the waters so that Roy Moore, who has been credibly accused of sexual harassment and abuse of teenagers, could be elected.
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Nunes' release of the memo fits a pattern of the House Intelligence Committee chairman's efforts to muddy the waters as Mueller's investigation has tightened its focus around Trump and his inner circle.
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In efforts to combat the bill's passage, Uber and Lyft have attempted to muddy the waters for their own drivers, spuriously claiming these labor protections would accompany a decrease in worker flexibility.
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While lamenting the wasteful loss of life, open borders immigration activists are quick to muddy the waters with a series of talking points meant to distract from the root of the problem.
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In September, Trump was able to muddy the waters of political blame: While Attorney General Jeff Sessions took the "bad cop" role of formally announcing DACA's sunset, Trump tweeted false reassurances to immigrants.
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Russia's hackers, in particular, have lately experimented with that digital mask-swapping with increasingly deceptive tactics—ones that, even when their deceit is successful dispelled, still manage to muddy the waters of accountability.
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And while nuclear security is apparently an extremely important issue, the NSS found it necessary to muddy the waters by discussing other nuclear issues, like how to rid the world of nuclear weapons.
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To further muddy the waters in that instance, Twitter is an investor in Dataminr, but Bailey said today that the company was never providing surveillance information for law enforcement as had been asserted.
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In the vacuum left by a lack of visible national leadership among Antifa, trolls have been able to step in and muddy the waters by setting up fake antifa accounts on social media.
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Just have a boring meeting with HR. Shutterstock The financial sector has produced a number of industry-backed reports trying to muddy the waters, as Litan's erstwhile Brookings colleague Jane Dokko has written.
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Still, it is important not to understate the extent to which China's management of its foreign reserve assets can complicate U.S. economic management, not to mention muddy the waters in global financial markets.
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Finally, the news that Clinton's campaign and the DNC helped to fund the research into the Trump dossier allows the President to muddy the waters about the ongoing special counsel investigation into Russia.
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It should be noted that some of those threads predict conflicting views of where the show is going, and there have been rumors that the showrunners shot multiple endings to muddy the waters.
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Trump may want to muddy the waters now that his own sexual conduct is under fire, and he may feel that he has nothing to lose by trying this attack at this point.
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Instead, they've largely served to muddy the waters around genuine issues that people should be concerned about regarding Google—like its domination of the search market and associated antitrust and anti-competition concerns.
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Finally, instead of seeking to keep the public informed to the best of our ability, some of our political leaders and media institutions have gone out of their way to muddy the waters.
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The XR successor, meanwhile, would maintain a 6.1-inch display, getting upgraded to OLED next year, while only offering up an LTE modem — a move that could muddy the waters a bit for consumers.
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While they point to a slew of factors that muddy the waters -- including the Trump organization's exploration of deals in Cuba and the President-elect's own pragmatic business orientation -- many see chillier times ahead.
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But what's especially worrying now is that the effort to distract with calls for investigations, whether internal, external or involving separate branches of government, seems to be working at least to muddy the waters.
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Any impropriety by McCabe in the Clinton investigation will provide fodder for President Trump and his Republican allies to further muddy the waters surrounding Russia — and DOJ's Mueller probe — by alleging "deep state" interference.
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Democrats have consistently called the Republican-led effort a political sham devised to muddy the waters around the special counsel investigation, and are certain to end it if they take control of the committees.
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One of the most important factors in this battle — compared to a lot of other fights in which Mr. Trump delays and obfuscates and makes noise to muddy the waters — is Mr. Bezos's tenacity.
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The White House and GOP attempted to muddy the waters in recent days, with the president complaining in a Friday tweet of "electoral corruption," and calling for a new Arizona election — all without evidence.
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Earlier in the week, Russia's defence ministry released radar data that it said proved the missile was launched from Ukrainian-held territory, the latest in a string of flimsy theories meant to muddy the waters.
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While her recollections might be useful to help trained investigators get at the truth, they have now served to muddy the waters and potentially discredit Ford's account by offering and then withdrawing support for it.
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To muddy the waters even further, this week, the world bore witness as Taco Bell unveiled their latest oddity: a breakfast taco that has a fried egg as the shell, dubbed the Naked Egg Taco.
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"Trying to muddy the waters by going after the integrity of the investigation is a classic tactic used by the people who feel threatened by an investigation because they know they've been caught," said Ryan.
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That it has occurred under capitalism is by no means incidental, because much of the work to muddy the waters on the science has come from groups that stand to profit from fossil fuel extraction.
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Representative Doug Collins of Georgia, the top Republican on the panel, had a more colorful way of expressing his frustration after being accused of trying to "muddy the waters" with fuzzy facts and questionable interpretations.
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Roser argues that the story the chart tells is accurate, that we know it's accurate due to various sources outside the Maddison and Bourguignon and Morrisson data, and that Hickel is attempting to muddy the waters.
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The only thing these theories about a dude's physical condition do is muddy the waters, giving teams and representatives and players cover to inject misinformation into the conversation and shade things to their public relations advantage.
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From the very start of the project more than a decade ago, they decided not to shoot any sit-down interviews with those politicians, because their well-practiced retelling of the narrative would muddy the waters.
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The combination of Clinton's history, Russian interference, a letter from then-FBI Director James Comey, emails, the rise of global right-wing populism, the first reality star candidate, and the first female presidential candidate muddy the waters.
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Still, there is concern that a three-person race could muddy the waters to the point that no candidate clearly wins the nomination by the convention in July, which could lead to what's called a brokered convention.
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The attempt to muddy the waters with disinformation was reflected in a leaked government presentation that argued for the immediate construction of megaprojects, such as highways and bridges, to head off international efforts to protect the Amazon.
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In fact, paradoxically, the longer Democrats drag out their investigation to strengthen their case, the more time Trump will have to muddy the waters with lies and conspiracies, possibly weakening that case, with the public at least.
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His barrage was in keeping with his general strategy toward the whistleblower: muddy the waters by saying such inaccurate and confusing things with such frequency that the public can't keep track of what's true and what's false.
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The bigger picture is that he's hoping to change the subject from questions about what he and his associates may have done, and to muddy the waters on the Russia issue by casting aspersions on his biggest critics.
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Pronouncements by Davis have done nothing but muddy the waters as he mused publicly about having to apply a cut-off date on any guarantee to EU citizens if the looming Brexit actually produced a new immigration rush.
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Any attempt by pundits or lobbyists to muddy the waters around this proposal is an obvious attempt to co-opt the campaign's momentum with an eye toward weakening future legislation and protecting the interests of health-industry profiteers.
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The following morning, it announced new policies against extremism on the platform and, shortly after, announced it was demonetizing Crowder's account (only to muddy the waters later in the day about the actions it'd be taking against Crowder).
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In an interview with CNN's Don Lemon on Wednesday, Harris' attorney said the warrant was an attempt to muddy the waters of who was to blame for the violent protests at the August 12 "Unite the Right" rally.
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For Republicans, it was enough to muddy the waters, to present an alternate theory of the case, to stress that the witnesses did not talk with Mr. Trump and to then brush off the whole debate as dull.
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Critics say Trump is using the allegations to muddy the waters in the Russia probe, which is looking into whether his campaign colluded with Moscow's efforts to interfere in the election and if the president obstructed the probe.
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In recent years, Russia has developed something of a standard operating procedure in the face of accusations from the West: proposing a number of competing theories, apparently in an attempt to muddy the waters about what actually happened.
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Some fear the document and its criticism of investigators' tactics will be used as ammunition to shut down Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Trump's presidential campaign, or at least muddy the waters enough to taint the investigation's conclusions.
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First, Trump and his allies have tried to muddy the waters about the origins of the Russia investigation by insisting it actually started with the Steele dossier, an unverified opposition research document compiled by Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer.
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But once the comments provoked strong condemnation, including from some Republicans, Trump and his staff turned it into a loyalty issue, making it clear that those who helped muddy the waters about the remarks would be doing the president a favor.
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As investigations by the Los Angeles Times and others have revealed, Exxon privately acknowledged a "general scientific agreement" on anthropogenic climate change as far back as the 22002s but resolved to muddy the waters, lest the revelations threaten its business model.
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As investigations by the Los Angeles Times and others have revealed, Exxon privately acknowledged a "general scientific agreement" on anthropogenic climate change as far back as the 1970s but resolved to muddy the waters, lest the revelations threaten its business model.
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A series of technology investments by Packer, largely in Israel, have helped muddy the waters - along with a film production company in which one of Packer's partners is Steven Mnuchin, who has been nominated for the position of U.S. Treasury Secretary.
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And to muddy the waters even more, Google also quietly launched Meet by Google Hangouts — an extra-enterprise friendly version of Hangout — earlier this week and then quickly pulled the app from the Google Play store after we wrote about it.
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"The difference between then and now, though, is the mushroom growth of media organizations willing to muddy the waters by either playing right into the hands of the suppressors or, in some glaring cases, becoming their mouthpieces," Ms. Burki said.
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I would like to tell you why I voted for the American Health Care Act (AHCA) and set the record straight about the bill without the emotional delirium the left is whipping up to muddy the waters of the policy debate.
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The new Republican-only measure seems to muddy the waters surrounding the debate about what should happen to cost sharing reduction (CSR) payments, funding from the government that reimburses insurers for helping low-income people cover their out-of-pocket health care costs.
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Pro-Trump Pravda sites like Breitbart, which have fomented birther conspiracies for years, weren't upset that Trump disclaimed birtherism; they celebrated Trump's successful attempt to troll the media and his incipient effort to muddy the waters about where this racist conspiracy theory took root.
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But the moment has long moved past Trump's angry attempts to muddy the waters: There is now widespread consensus that Russia meddled in the election to help him, and the internal politics of the DNC is not the story that it was a month ago.
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H.R. 1 represents the centerpiece of Democrats' efforts to make good on a campaign pledge to combat corruption in Washington and take on what they have alleged is a long-running effort by Republicans to suppress voter turnout and muddy the waters of campaign finance.
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"Biden is desperately trying to muddy the waters by dishonestly manufacturing a fake nonsensical controversy over one single video -- because he knows there are multiple videos out there of public speeches he made proudly congratulating himself for working to cut Social Security," Sirota told CNN.
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That's why he is trying to muddy the waters by claiming, in a recent interview, to be the real champion of Social Security and that Democrats – the party that created and defended Social Security, over its 83-year history – are now out to destroy it.
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If you watch it, YouTube is likely to offer you videos that claim to show Hogg "forgetting his lines" while speaking to CNN, "SICK secrets about the shooting," and other lies right-wing media uses to muddy the waters around the issue of gun control.
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To muddy the waters further, there's also a third group of around 20,000 consumers who bought tickets to Madison Square Garden to see the Yeezy Season 3 premiere, or who bought tickets to see the show live in one of over 700 theaters around the world.
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" Allie Renison, Head of Europe & Trade Policy at Britain's Institute of Directors: "We hope that the EU summit this week will not be seen as an opportunity for political leaders to muddy the waters of this deal as agreement on transition is vital for businesses across Europe.
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Trump and other White House officials have tried to muddy the waters of the Russia investigation by arguing that it is a partisan witch hunt and that Hillary Clinton was the real colluder—but "no collusion" has always been the get-out-of-jail-free card.
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Democrats alternatively have derided the GOP-led investigation as a political witch hunt designed to muddy the waters around special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's investigation.
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Whether it was the Russians, whether they were looking to get Trump elected, and what should or is likely to happen next are all controversial questions, and that's before you start going down the rabbit hole of competing Twitter threads and other conflicting sources that can muddy the waters.
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From calling in to television shows and thus having an upper hand from the interviewer, to the way he will contradict himself in the span of two minutes in an interview to muddy the waters, Trump almost always seems to come out unscathed from even the harshest interviews.
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Today, given a week that saw immense sturm und drang over Devin Nunes' memo—a document that seems purposefully designed to obfuscate and muddy the waters around Mueller's investigation—it seems worth asking the opposite question: What are the known knowns of the Mueller investigation, and where might it be heading?
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Critics say Nunes and other conservative lawmakers on Capitol Hill are seeking the documents in order to muddy the waters around special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerMueller report fades from political conversation Trump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony MORE's investigation.
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Shortly after O'Rourke's visit to Homestead, his deputy communications director Rob Friedlander tweeted that "Beto has led ... his entire career" on immigration and that "President Trump would love nothing more than for Democrats to muddy the waters to score political points on this issue," a response that seemed clearly aimed at Castro.
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Republicans have also been clear that they don't want to muddy the waters of a spending deal with a controversial negotiation on what to do about recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program, those individuals who came to the country illegally, but were given protected status under the Obama administration.
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But Trump and his allies have tried to muddy the waters about the origins of the Russia investigation by insisting it actually started with the Steele dossier, an unverified opposition research document that includes outrageous claims about the Russian government taping Trump watching prostitutes urinate on a hotel bed in Moscow in 2013.
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But if the White House provides a transcript, or seeks to muddy the waters in its response, that could make it more challenging for Democrats to unify behind impeachment, even after President Donald Trump's admission of discussing Vice President Joe Biden and his son in his phone call with the Ukrainian leader.
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Trump and his allies have tried to muddy the waters about the origins of the Russia investigation by insisting it actually started with the Steele dossier, an unverified opposition research document that includes outrageous claims about the Russian government taping Trump watching prostitutes urinate on a hotel bed in Moscow in 2013.
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Sure, you could run a Twitter account totally separated from your real identity in every single way—by not following accounts you're interested in, or maybe deliberately interacting with random people to muddy the waters—but that might not be why you joined the service in the first place; what would even be the point?
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More recently Google announced a long term plan to involve its Chromium browser engine in developing a new open standard for privacy — sparking concerns it's trying to both kick the can on privacy protection and muddy the waters by shaping and pushing self-interested definitions which align with its core data-mining business interests.
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Zooming out for a second, you do also have to pause and wonder at quite how radioactive the corporate culture must be when the "solution" to a string of hugely damaging disinformation scandals is to reach for whataboutery and even actual fake news, as the NYT has claimed, to try to muddy the waters in your favor.
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They are also hurting their own party's political prospects by allowing Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpGOP senators balk at lengthy impeachment trial Warren goes local in race to build 85033 movement 2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes MORE (who loves to talk tough on pharma, even though his policies tell a very different story) to muddy the waters.
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Fast forward to today, and Trump is looking at an electoral landscape where women are forming the core of the Democratic wave, where his approval among women is a dismal 30 percent, and where he won't be running against a Clinton in 2020 and so won't be able to muddy the waters with Bill Clinton's misdeeds.
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Sometimes infused with drama — but always straightforward and apolitical — the testimonies of these three dedicated public servants helped paint a picture of how the Giuliani maneuverings around U.S. foreign policy in Ukraine helped to muddy the waters and swing the pendulum of priorities towards Trump's private political obsessions, instead of the interests of the country he was elected to lead.
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In fact, he said that the K.G.B. had been so alarmed after the Kennedy assassination that it searched its own files and could not find any evidence that Mr. Oswald had ever worked for the K.G.B. But C.I.A. officials, led by the counterintelligence chief James Jesus Angleton, were convinced that Mr. Nosenko was a double agent sent by Moscow to muddy the waters.
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"Having discovered how problematic her embrace of Medicare for All has become — its ending of private health coverage, its punishment of states and employers who have done the right thing, its elimination of millions of jobs, its tax increase on the middle class — Senator Warren is now trying to muddy the waters even further," deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield said in a statement.
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For Democrats, the message was just as obvious: Republicans, they say, are conducting an unnecessary investigation in order to muddy the waters around special counsel Robert MuellerRobert (Bob) Swan MuellerTrump calls for probe of Obama book deal Democrats express private disappointment with Mueller testimony Kellyanne Conway: 'I'd like to know' if Mueller read his own report MORE's probe into Russia's election interference.
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They want prosecutions of not just Clinton but also: The point here is almost certainly not to generate any actual prosecutions so much as it is to try to muddy the waters in the media — creating a two-sided battle between and his "deep state" enemies rather than the reality that the Trump investigation has been led almost entirely by Republicans and career civil servants.
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The report was denounced by Democrats as an effort by Republicans to muddy the waters around the Russia investigation and protect President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE from further scrutiny.
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The fact that they didn't — that the information was secretly leaked by White House staffers to Nunes, who subsequently went public and strongly implied he didn't get the information from the White House — suggests that unmasking is not the real issue here, and that Nunes was instead using the deliberately confusing phrase to muddy the waters and try to appear that the information vindicated Trump's original baseless wiretapping claim.
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If there is a method to this madness -- and I am on record as being skeptical that there is some sort of deep strategy at work here -- it is to muddy the waters, to distract from the Flynn guilty plea by insisting that he's not at all worried about it and then throwing out lots and lots of other things for his base to focus on/be outraged about.
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Many suspect that Trump's GOP allies are using the document requests to muddy the waters in the Russia probe and perhaps lay the groundwork for firing the officials who are leading it, such as Deputy Attorney General Rod RosensteinRod RosensteinWhy the presumption of innocence doesn't apply to Trump McCabe sues FBI, DOJ, blames Trump for his firing Rosenstein: Trump should focus on preventing people from 'becoming violent white supremacists' MORE.
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The F.T.C.'s approval of the consent order is likely to raise legal questions nationwide on whether a dealer can make false statements about a vehicle's safety or condition and evade responsibility because there is also a disclaimer that those statements "may" not be true, said Bernard Brown, a consumer protection lawyer in Kansas City, Mo. "It will muddy the waters on everything from personal injury to fraud," he said.
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It's an open question whether the mixed messaging from Democratic leadership about impeachment is the product of genuine confusion about procedure and what Nadler is trying to accomplish, or if it is an intentional effort by leadership to muddy the waters—allowing both impeachment supporters and impeachment opponents within the caucus to believe what they want to believe about what is taking place while Judiciary diligently continues with its investigation and public support for impeachment trickles upward.
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Meyers continued to slam the network's coverage, saying that when they aren't busy interviewing Trump, they are trying to "dredge up a series of debunked and overblown stories to muddy the waters" about Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham ClintonTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Anti-Trump vets join Steyer group in pressing Democrats to impeach Trump Republicans plot comeback in New Jersey MORE, focusing on the recent reports that Clinton's campaign paid for research that contributed to the Trump-Russia dossier.
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