I came accoss this phrase in Nicholson Baker's book Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act. (Penguin Press, 2020). It was the strategy used by the CIA in its claims that it had not engaged in bio-warfare.
I was struck by how aptly the phrase captures universities' statements whenever details of their use of animals make it into the news cycle.
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