"Hamas's document is a smoke screen," he said in a statement.
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Mr. Craig said the free speech argument was a smoke screen.
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"Trump may say this was part of his smoke-screen tactic," he said.
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"Dick was a smoke screen, he was the Wizard of Oz," she said.
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On Wednesday, Mr. Nunes tried to replace that cloud with a smoke screen.
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Despite their own findings, the GOP's diversionary, conspiracy-mongering smoke screen continues apace.
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Did they act as a secret code, a mirror or a smoke screen?
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Kylie Jenner just gave Tyga a very expensive smoke screen -- a new Bentley Bentayga.
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But, we should have all known the supposed drama was all a smoke screen.
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Frederica Wilson ... who's calling out 45 for throwing up a big space smoke screen.
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"Roswell, that was a smoke screen," he divulges, encouraging Mulder's never-ending quest for answers.
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He said the legislation appeared to be a "smoke screen" to eliminate local control of fracking.
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After laying down a smoke screen, Flusha ducked back and waited for Na'Vi to peak through.
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So they're doing what Hawley is doing: resorting to a combination of sabotage and smoke screen.
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Dr. Tillet said Mr. Fairfax's speech was also a "smoke screen" intended to cover up sexism.
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Cloud9's Jake "Stewie2k" Yip was behind cover next to the smoke screen, looking for approaching players.
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For the most part it's just a smoke screen to help conceal the G.O.P.'s true intentions.
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They need a smoke screen to hide the fact that they're nothing but a bunch of kleptocrats.
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Nixon used poor Tricia Nixon Cox's White House wedding as a smoke screen in June of 1971.
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They're just using that to create a smoke screen that this is all going to be fine.
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"I do not want us to hide behind a technological smoke screen," he said that day at Columbia.
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They use words as a smoke screen, and it's all the more effective when their words are true.
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To the left, with a title both punning and descriptive, is a piece called "Smoke Screen" (1990-95).
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There's also a real smoking "smoke screen" and a "bulletproof" screen that comes up behind the back window.
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WARHOL'S LEGACY The Pop artist was famous for hiding behind a smoke screen of hyperbole and outright fibs.
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Kurdish fighters appeared to be burning tires in multiple locations to create a smoke screen against the Turkish onslaught.
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And, sure enough, after her election Suu Kyi became a smoke screen for Buddhist extremism and oppressive military rule.
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Mr. Schneiderman and his supporters say the First Amendment argument is a smoke screen to avoid a legitimate investigation.
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It came off like he was using the whole 'Degrassi' reunion thing as a smoke screen for the drama.
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But the ransom demand was just a smoke screen for a far more invasive attack that stole employee credentials.
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The claim that they don't is simply a smoke-screen that allows them to advance their own substantive political agenda.
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Fossil-fuel companies, to protect their profits, spent decades throwing up a smoke screen about the risks of climate change.
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A driver in Lithuania channeled James Bond and attempted to evade police by deploying a smoke screen and spikes, police say.
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Daniel Gros, who heads the Centre for European Policy Studies think tank in Brussels, dismissed such moves as a "smoke screen".
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""I'm really offended by the RACISM and WHITE Supremacy embedded in Ms Fettermans SMOKE SCREEN of a REASON for quitting NOW!
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From the documentation Facebook has given, a reasonable person might conclude that the problem statement exists entirely as a smoke screen.
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The kink community thinks Schneiderman is using role-play as a smoke screen for abuse, subverting its own struggle for acceptance.
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That traditional role is often a smoke screen for partial preparation and keeping one's spouse largely in the dark, he said.
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"The politicization of terrorism has been used as a smoke screen to deviate attention from social and corruption problems," Mr. Bosch said.
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People ran with it and used it as a convenient smoke screen to say that they cared about ethics in games journalism.
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" A retired park service biologist, Mary Meagher, who studied bison for 37 years, told me then that "brucellosis is a smoke screen.
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Another reliable reflex in fashion is to reference rebellion, sedition the smoke screen for one of the most conformist of cultural undertakings.
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Astralis made a poor decision and moved through a smoke screen right into Stanislaw, who racked up a tight three-kill spree.
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Dispensing with the usual vague "based on a true story" smoke screen, "American Animals" claims to show the truth about what happened.
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As he has already clearly demonstrated in Ukraine, a cease-fire to him is a tactic, even a smoke screen, not a goal.
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"Project Fear" is a smoke-screen used by Leave campaigners because they do not have an argument about what Britain's future looks like.
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In February, the economy minister, Aivaras Abromavicius stepped down, saying that he did not want to act as a "smoke screen" for corruption.
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Dealing with a smoke screen can be difficult when you're trying to advance on a bomb site, but PashaBiceps ain't afraid of no smoke.
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In an editorial about the new project, John Sauven, executive director of Greenpeace UK, derided the company's packaging pledge as a familiar smoke screen.
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Insurance companies and middle managers negotiate prices with drug companies and other service providers, but create a smoke screen to true health-care costs.
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They could easily make a halfhearted referral to law enforcement and then use it as a smoke screen to avoid a potentially devastating disclosure.
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Sometimes the "heritage, not hate" argument — which I, along with Alan Blinder and Campbell Robertson explored in a recent article — is a smoke screen.
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But it has also been used as a smoke screen to squeeze other groups and movements that promote narratives deemed problematic by the government.
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New America's Ms. Laitinen dismisses the concern as a smoke screen by an organization whose members sometimes charge a lot more than their competitors.
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Critic's Notebook If a sexual predator wanted to come up with a smoke screen for his ghastly conquests, he couldn't do better than Cliff Huxtable.
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"It's entirely possible that this attack could have been a smoke screen," said Justin Harvey, the managing director of global incident response at Accenture Security.
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And I know now they are all wrong, and those misguided arguments act as a smoke screen for the profound flaws that mark capital punishment.
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There is no need to attack the media for doing their job unless it's a smoke screen to keep our attention off the real crises.
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Some in France, not totally without reason, see Mr. Macron's climate change agenda as a smoke screen for plans to shred the social safety net.
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In a news conference, she said her successor, President Mauricio Macri, was creating a "smoke screen" to divert voters' attention from controversial pension and labor reforms.
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But Putin's critics say the reform was merely a smoke screen to give the country's ruling elite a way to keep Putin in power after 2024.
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Abu Abdo, 3003, says he is playing his part by collecting old tyres to be burned by fighters to create a smoke screen from hostile warplanes.
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Environmental and climate experts labeled his claims that NGOs were responsible a "smoke screen" to hide his government's dismantling of protections for the world's largest tropical rainforest.
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"I don't want to be a smoke screen for obvious corruption or a marionette for those who want to return control in the old style," he said.
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In an interview before his conviction, he said the case against him and other technical experts had been a smoke screen to hide corruption by senior officials.
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Harrison's approach is unapologetically radical, dismantling the ways in which diet culture is a "life thief" and how wellness can provide a smoke screen for disordered eating.
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"We believe it is just a smoke screen for a witch hunt targeting the civil rights of American Muslims," said Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the council.
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Saudi Arabia seems to fear that the removal of the smoke screen of the nuclear issue will expose the real global threat: its active sponsorship of violent extremism.
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"I really fault the bad fiscal policy of the federal government across the board" for job losses, he contended, saying blanket statements blaming trade are a smoke screen.
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"And so, (there were) all the ships on fire, and a terrible smoke screen all through the harbor, covering it, and ships, all the adjoining area," he recalled.
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Like many gestures of colonization, the exhibition uses misplaced nostalgia for actually existing cultures as a smoke screen for complicity with their destruction, in this case through gentrification.
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We then commenced our mission, fighting our way into the village, while airstrikes, helicopter gunships and a smoke screen laid down by American jets kept the enemy contained.
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Other clever features will include a "smoke screen" device to hide the car from pursuers and a replica oil squirter to release an imaginary oil slick behind the car.
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Kendall Jenner got lip service in the form of a new tatt inside her mouth -- it says "MEOW" but don't be fooled ... the ink is but a smoke screen.
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"What is happening here is political maneuvering and the throwing up of a smoke screen to avoid identifying those who are really responsible for this toxic cloud," he said.
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Earn enough points and you can spend them, via the radio, on all sorts of bonuses: Supply drops, smoke screen barrages, heavy weapons and tanks, and even rocket strikes.
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The parking area is marred by the black residue of rubber tires, burnt to a create a smoke screen for protection from Israeli snipers at Bilin's weekly Friday protest.
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It's all very funny, until you realize your taxes are funding all these laughable extravaganzas — and these extravaganzas might function as a smoke screen for Pruitt's threats to the environment.
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Bolsonaro's evidence-free theory was slammed by NGOs, who claimed it was a "smoke screen" to try and shield him from criticism as he rolls back protections for the rainforest.
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"The rosy picture painted by Shari of her supposed reconciliation with her father is a smoke screen," Manuela Herzer, the former companion, said in a recent declaration to the court.
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"We have information that tomorrow, under a smoke screen and civilian cover, Hamas intends to carry out terrorist attacks against our civilians and troops, and cross the fence," he said.
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The experts soon concluded that the technical information Mr. Schmidt presented was yet another smoke screen — the latest in a series of maneuvers by the automaker to hide its misdeeds.
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Critics say the agency is using dry conditions as a smoke screen to shrink horse populations in response to pressure from ranchers whose livestock compete with the horses for grazing land.
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But all of this back and forth is a smoke screen for the true origins of the black and white cookie, which can actually be traced to good old fashioned commercialism.
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WILLIAMS: One -- one is a matter of total distraction, diversion from the Russian probe, put up like a smoke screen by the Trump administration and by his stooges in the Congress.
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Guardian picked out the lurker, Krimz, and then fired into the smoke screen to make it a 2v1, eventually winning the round and giving Na'Vi a much-needed win on Train.
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It's suspected the terror group damaged the oil field to create a smoke screen as Iraqi forces battled to push them out of al-Qayyara, about 35 miles south of Mosul.
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This actorly excellence (and he really is excellent) is a kind of smoke screen — a gas attack, if you're feeling nasty — for the cruelty, the unsparing feel-badness of the play.
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The government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the purge is necessary to round up the coup plotters, but critics call the coup attempt a smoke screen to target legitimate opposition.
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Now, the audio clip of Captain Phelps has drawn extra scrutiny, in part because her tactic appeared to use real problems with racial bias in law enforcement as a smoke screen.
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Now, he'll finally work on the car, which has smoke-screen capability and drop-down metal curtains with gun ports and full armor, including on the roof, radiator and gas tank.
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His father was a Party member who manufactured munitions cases for the Wehrmacht in Cologne; he used his work and political connections as a smoke screen to hide his wife's identity.
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Which certainly raises the question of whether the president-elect's tirade against Boeing is a smoke screen for his effort to get his own Boeing 757 designated as the official presidential aircraft.
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That could be a smoke screen because the company was late to the cloud, took years to take it seriously as a concept, and barely registers today in terms of market share.
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Monterey, California (CNN Business)One winning bidder is now legally able to drive in an actual James Bond Aston Martin, with working nail spreaders, tire slashers, smoke screen and rotating license plates.
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Mark Hamelburg, the senior vice president of federal programs for America's Health Insurance Plans, the trade group, said the new proposal is little more than a smoke screen by the pharmaceutical industry.
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Saudi leaders could be using the conflict, which has resulted in a blockade of Qatar, as a strategic smoke screen to deflect attention from the simmering tension inside their own insular borders.
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Indeed, Russia has already rushed to Assad's defense with an implausible smoke screen story that the Syrian air force bombed a "terrorist" chemical weapons facility, resulting in the release of the toxic gases.
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The government "needed a smoke screen so that people would forget for a little bit about the justice system," said Claudiu Tufis, an associate professor of political science at the University of Bucharest.
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This legally baseless policy statement could easily have been written by the servicers, who will no doubt use it as a smoke screen when they are sued by states for using deceptive practices.
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" In an interview, Mr. Lévy called populism "a smoke screen for neo-fascism" and said that the signatories were "united by love of Europe and a sense of emergency — the 30 are afraid.
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Since he decided before even arriving at the State Department to slash its budget by 31 percent, many in the department have always seen the reorganization as a smoke screen for drastic cuts.
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Weinstein's lawyers are using a victim-blaming approach as a smoke-screen, similar to having him use a walker to attempt to project a sense of disability-related weakness or victimhood about himself.
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Hamas, which has been effectively running the protests, said the smoke screen was a defensive measure to protect unarmed Palestinians from being shot, as many were last Friday, the first day of the demonstrations.
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" Zarif said that the alliance between Saudi Arabia and Western nations, and the tension between those nations and Iran, provided a "smoke screen" that allowed Saudi Arabia to "export this Wahhabi ideology of extremism.
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And even if that were not the case, legal trade would have provided a smoke screen for illegal laundering, according to a joint statement by 53 wildlife groups addressed to the Uganda Wildlife Authority.
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The Israelis claim that Hamas is using women and children as human shields and burning tires to create a smoke screen, all to provide cover for violent attempts to penetrate the fence and attack Israelis.
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In its wake, Fever to Tell exceeded expectations while silencing the sceptics at the back who sniffed that Yeah Yeah Yeahs' beer-slick, lawless live shows served as a mere smoke-screen for style over substance.
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As crusaders against fake news push technology companies to "defend the truth," they face a backlash from a conservative movement, retooled for the digital age, which sees claims for objectivity as a smoke screen for bias.
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Journalists are quick to jump on the anti-Trump train accusing him of a scorched-earth strategy that is nothing more than conspiracy mongering, however millions of Americans disagree and see through the Clinton smoke screen.
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But in reality, some of what we think we know is bunkum and myth, quite often spread by the artist himself, who was famous for hiding behind a smoke screen of partial-truths and outright fibs.
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Mulwray requested a state of emergency from the governor to create a "smoke screen," but falsified the reports so no one would ever know what Hiram and Claudius Blossom (Barclay Hope) had done once that camouflage lifted.
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"We've seen DDoS attacks against banks used as a smoke screen and cover for other nefarious activities such as cyber-heists ... large value money transfers, or the bulk theft and removal of consumer account data," he said.
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The stated aim of the exercise — in which radiological, chemical and biological-warfare units will also participate — is to test how well a smoke screen could conceal the city's military base in the event of a confrontation.
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In previous weeks, Palestinians protesters have burned flags and heaps of tires to create a thick, black smoke screen in an effort to protect themselves from Israeli snipers or to try to damage or breach the fence.
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The tabloid universe, which lives by similar rules, can't execute on this narrative either: they tried "Peter Kraus Reveals Why He Turned Down 'The Bachelor': 'I Was Not Ready,'" and it just smells like smoke screen spirit.
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Thiel and Sacks argued that the inclusive language of the multicultural movement was a smoke screen for an ambitious effort to marginalize conservative viewpoints, enforce ideological conformity, and lower the level of intellectual discourse in the process.
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees also accused South Sudan's government forces of using "the cover of an ongoing conflict to act as a 'smoke screen'" to initiate the process of ethnic cleansing.
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The UN's Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide warns that the ongoing conflict has acted "as a smoke screen" for the "deliberate starvation, the bombardment of and attacks against civilians" on the basis of their ethnic identity.
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And yet there was widespread speculation — some of which made it into newspapers the week of the Masters — that the report of the accident was a smoke screen, perhaps one hiding some disciplinary action imposed by the tour.
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But migrant experts and humanitarian aid groups fear the EU agreement is a political smoke screen aimed at addressing the concerns of resurgent anti-migrant parties in Europe and which will only leave vulnerable people once again at risk.
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"This situation is really about whether or not GM is going to put new work into these plants or whether this is a smoke screen for offshoring work," AFL-CIO policy director, Damon Silvers said on CNBC's Power Lunch.
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In extraordinary legal proceedings that vacated my father's conviction nearly 40 years later in 1983, evidence of government misconduct showed that the "military necessity" on which the court predicated its decision was apparently nothing more than a smoke screen.
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Opponents call that a smoke screen, and say the legislation is crafted to curtail early voting by requiring local election officials to staff every polling place 12 hours a day for all 17 days of the early voting period.
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Bits We are two months into "ransomware as a mainstream news topic," and we have quickly moved toward scrutiny of a new wrinkle in that kind of cyberattack: when ransomware is used as a smoke screen for something else.
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Other environmentalists also blasted Bolsonaro's claims shortly after, with some accusing Bolsonaro of attempting to use the allegations as a "smoke screen" to cover his own administration's role in rescinding environmental protections for the region since he took office this year.
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But the hacking that Mr. Ben-Oni experienced went a step further: The ransom demand was a smoke screen for a more invasive attack to steal employee credentials, information that would have allowed the hackers to roam freely through IDT's systems.
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And he surely knew that the story would play well with his audience, which was eager to see the news about the Trump team's Russia connections as a mainstream media smoke screen and Mr. Rich's murder as the real fire.
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However, when I moved beyond the smoke screen, I realized none of this would matter when I know the candidate I supported would start a war that will kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people and bury it just like the emails.
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Clearly, it's a smoke screen for the administration's agenda to starve and destroy government health care and it's providing cover to one of the biggest threats unfolding in front of our eyes, the Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017.
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" Maria Zakharova, Russia's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, said Moscow was "surprised by the anti-Russia comments in the Cyprus media" and accused the media of creating "a smoke screen for the real problems that need to be tackled as part of the Cypriot settlement.
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Here's a funny/sad look at the new meta: While that spray-and-pray method can keep enemies from running through tight corridors and possibly land a lucky kill through a smoke screen, there actually is a way to get accurate shots with the Negev.
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But at the end of the day, is it too much to expect that they are good enough lawyers to see through their own smoke screen and to understand immigration law for what it is, not for what they would prefer it to be?
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But the internal emails, a rare glimpse into Facebook's inner workings, show that the image the company promoted for years — as an idealistic enterprise more dedicated to "bringing the world closer together" than increasing its own bottom line — was a carefully cultivated smoke screen.
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Between the lines: What the directors do seem to have learned recently is that public market investors are very hesitant to invest in a WeWork with Neumann at the helm, so they're putting up a smoke screen to deflect from their own blind spot.
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"If we could get more people to look at how we independently and critically vet the evidence as it's presented in news stories, I think high schoolers and maybe even eighth graders can learn to cut through the smoke screen and become better critical thinkers," he said.
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Whenever a Counter-Strike pro lines up a nearly unbelievable headshot or manages to kill an opponent covered by a visually impenetrable wall or smoke screen, swarms of viewers on Twitch inundate the chat with the acronym "VAC," accusing that player of violating Valve's Anti-Cheat System.
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A closely supervised two-day visit to the region arranged by the authorities for 10 diplomats in early November did little to address the humanitarian crisis and should not be used as a "smoke screen" for giving the military a free hand to increase its operations, Ms. Lee said.
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Which raises a question: Could it be the Ukraine tale currently being weaved by Democrats and their allies in the media is nothing more than a smoke screen designed to distract us from the forthcoming Justice Department inspector general report into abuses during the Democratic-inspired Russia collusion probe?
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"The N.C.A.A.'s recent move to permit student athletes to benefit from their name, image and likeness illustrates that the untenable amateurism model is simply a smoke screen used to protect the pockets of the N.C.A.A. and its member schools," said Michael J. Willemin of the Manhattan firm Wigdor Law LLP.
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Two statewide recounts still underway, after a vote-counting process that was assailed by Republicans, without evidence, as a possible smoke screen for election fraud, are for the state agriculture commissioner race and the United States Senate race between the Democratic incumbent, Bill Nelson, and Rick Scott, the Republican governor.
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But in reality, some of what we think we know is bunkum and myth, quite often spread by the artist himself, who was famous for hiding behind a smoke screen of partial-truths and outright fibs … The Word of the Day and the quiz question have been provided by Vocabulary.com.
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It was an effort to construct a rhetorical smoke screen around the fact that DAPA is neither "an unprecedented unlawful assertion of executive power" nor "one of the largest changes in immigration policy in our nation's history," phrases that the state's lawyer hurled at the program in the opening moments of his argument.
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William Bourdon, a lawyer who represented the City of Paris, which owns the museum, told reporters there was an "immense probability" that the three men had managed to set up a "smoke screen" to deceive the authorities, with the "hope and the ambition to one day retrieve their share of the loot."
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In the first statements from the New York State Democratic Party since Mr. de Blasio began describing the episode as politically motivated, the state party's head, Basil A. Smikle Jr., suggested that Mr. de Blasio's allegations were "nothing more than a political smoke screen created by the mayor," arguing that there was good reason for various agencies to investigate the mayor's fund-raising without an extra prod from state officials.
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