complicitous

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As a co-conspirator with the CIA, Jeppesen was complicitous in the Agency's illegal kidnapping and disappearance of "terrorism" suspects into CIA black sites across Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

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  1. Guilty of complicity; tending to involve. [Rare.] Whatever a man's liver says next day, it is a remarkably complicitous witness. W. H. Russell, Diary in India, I. 185.

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  • Let's be a little more specific, shall we: Bush family has been complicitous in drug trafficking. —  Raw Story
  • There are those, including at least one Congressman, who think it was complicitous. —  CounterPunch
  • So stepping back and looking at a form of "big picture", we see the Bush administration and its hench-people including the complicitous Congressional leaders and Finance / Banking Committee members allowing unobstructed production of financial WMD's to be set throughout the system that eventually reach a point of explosion when certain events drive the dense mass to the ignition point. —  DealBook
  • I tell you what Krauthammer, I choose sackcloth with ashes on top of my head before you and wicked lies deciet carnal tyranous complicitous crimminal userpation coup de gras and idolatrous self-worshipping and godless global-mob-glut-pogrom hell bent upon genocidal mass slow kill, peppered hot battle war with then global east west north south fatigueing resistance, vive le resistance!!! —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • Face: All they ever had was McCain's POW status but when people read the Nation's new "real POW / MIA story" which directly involved McCain in a complicitous relationship with the US Government and the White House as head of the Foreign Services Committee and the intentional cover-up of those POW's left behind (families in this country have all testified about this who have lost their loved ones), there will be nothing left. —  Crooks and Liars
 

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