Cloak and dagger: 神秘離奇,欺騙,陰謀

involving secrecy, deception, espionage and plotting, when people behave in a very secretive way

Examples:

  • “What is up with all this cloak and dagger talk? Is there something going on I don’t know about?”
  • I said I wanted to meet you in private, but you don’t have to be so cloak-and-dagger about it. A parking garage is not what I had in mind!

 

(Mediate, 2020/01/14)

The final debate before the 2020 Democratic primaries kick off with the Iowa Caucuses next month went down on Tuesday night.

The stage was fraught with tension: a bitter feud between Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders was launched on Monday by a CNN report, apparently leaked by the Warren camp, accusing the Vermont senator of telling his Massachusetts colleague he didn’t believe a woman could win in 2020. Sanders denies the allegation.

Elizabeth Warren had high risk going into Tuesday night’s debate. She faced an intense backlash from Sanders supporters after confirming CNN’s reporting on her claim that he told her a woman couldn’t win in 2020. Allegations of cloak and dagger politics abounded on Twitter.

美國2020民主黨在愛荷華州初選開始之前最後一場辯論,在週二晚間舉行。舞台上瀰漫著緊張氣氛,因為之前CNN的報導說,華倫的競選團隊(消息顯然就是這個團隊自己洩漏出去的)指控Vermont參議員桑德斯曾經告訴華倫,他不相信女性能夠贏得2020年美國總統大選,這讓辯論變成兩人之間的尖銳對決。桑德斯否認他有講過這話。

Elizabeth Warren進入這場周二晚上的辯論風險是很高的。她在確認CNN這項報導,說桑德斯確實有跟她講過這話之後,桑德斯支持者強力反彈,推特上一片罵聲,說她在耍政治陰謀。

(Washington Post, 2020/01/04)

Since the dawn of the Clinton administration, a silky Italian restaurant in Georgetown has been more famous for its patrons than its provisions. At Cafe Milano, the District’s political dons and doyennes are seen executing handshake deals over plates of lobster linguine.

In 2011, something far more sinister was nearly served up.

The restaurant found itself in the middle of an international cloak-and-dagger operation that reads like the plot of a Bond novel: It involved a highflying Saudi ambassador, a DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) informant, surreptitious FBI surveillance and Mexican drug cartels.

打從柯林頓政府最開始,美國華府一家豪華的義大利餐廳就以貴賓而非其餐點著名。在米蘭諾咖啡廳,可以看到教父教母級的客人邊享用龍蝦義大利細麵,邊握手敲定交易。不過2011那年,更邪惡的事差點兒發生。這家咖啡廳發現自己被捲進了007小說般的離奇國際行動中,牽涉到闊綽的沙烏地阿拉伯駐美國大使,一名美國緝毒署的告密者,聯邦調查局的秘密監控,以及墨西哥販毒集團。

Sound (中文解說): ICRT newsblog

Photos: aljazeeraMilano cafe