pretexters

He has testified a number of times before Congress, and worked with the House Financial Services Committee in the late 1990s to expose "pretexters" who used devious means to obtain and sell a person's financial records.

RockyMountainNews.com 2009

And pretexters who use the telephone are almost certainly commiting wire fraud.

Balkinization 2006

It's a term that's been around for years but became widely known only when news broke recently that people who call themselves pretexters had impersonated members of the HP board of directors to get their phone records.

Wall Street Weaselwords 2007

Call me naive, but even some pretexters might try to find another way to make a buck if they had to tell their friends and families that they're professional liars.

Wall Street Weaselwords 2007

Since there already is ample evidence that Bush and his top henchpeople knew of and desired torture in an effort to get information, it is ineluctable that Herbert is ultimately speaking of Bush, Cheney and the other top pretexters, though he did not mention their names or offices.

Bob Herbert's Recent Truths And Their Consequences 2006

Perhaps some men and women in the CIA and the military may deserve sympathy in a way, because the pretexters put them in a position where they felt they had no choice but to do bad stuff, since they knew the pretexters wanted it done.

Bob Herbert's Recent Truths And Their Consequences 2006

Given the heavily conservative tilt of our population, there are overwhelming numbers of people who wish to believe, and therefore will believe, any conservative claptrap that reactionary pretexters like Bush and Cheney spout, no matter how absurd it is.

Re: The Pretexter Stain: Let History Know You Want To Be Included Out. 2006

In the past year, all of the major cell phone companies have gone to court against pretexters.

CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2006 2006

The pretexters generally don't respond to this, except to say that terrorists are in a different position when captured.

Bob Herbert's Recent Truths And Their Consequences 2006

Well, I would never belittle the views of the pretexters 'opponents, many of whom are or were military people, the very kind of people who could in fact be tortured by others if the pretexters get their way -- while the pretexters often have no combat experience or even military experience whatever, or even were draft dodgers, like the Vice Pretexter.

Bob Herbert's Recent Truths And Their Consequences 2006