black bag
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Black bag describes covert operations, especially illegal break-ins conducted by intelligence or law enforcement agencies: a black bag job.
The term evokes operatives carrying tools in an inconspicuous bag.
Such operations typically involve planting surveillance devices, photographing documents, or gathering evidence without warrants.
The phrase carries connotations of government overreach and extralegal activity.
Process of working
- opsOrganizational processes, informally
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
intelligence · undercover · reconnaissance · secret · mission · CIA · rendition · interrogation
Doctor's trip to patient
- emergency kitPrepared supplies for disasters
- first aidInitial injury treatment
- stethoscopeMedical listening instrument
- instrumentsTools for precise tasks
supplies · leather · satchel · valise · carryall · equipment · case · portable
operation
Process of working
- opsOrganizational processes, informally
- espionageCovert intelligence gathering
- clandestineConcealed from authorities
surveillance · intelligence · undercover · reconnaissance · secret · mission · CIA · rendition · interrogation · extraction
house call
Doctor's trip to patient
- emergency kitPrepared supplies for disasters
- first aidInitial injury treatment
- stethoscopeMedical listening instrument
instruments · supplies · leather · satchel · valise · carryall · equipment · case · portable · bedside
- trash bagsgarbage bags, bin liners, bin liner, leaf bags, clear bags
- Spycraftspy, agent, asset, covert, handler
- Sailor Superstitionsalbatross, whistling, bananas, Davy Jones, Flying Dutchman
- curbsidecurb, kerb, gutter, curb cut, curb cuts
black baglegal search
Constitutionally valid inspection
due process · warrant · court order · subpoena · by-the-book
black, bag, handbag, bagged, bagging, blackness, blacks, blacker, blackish