Sub rosa:
Translated from Latin, this means “under the rose” and is a term frequently used for surveillance but can also mean any type of undercover or discrete investigation. We provide sub rosa/surveillance services both to private parties and to commercial firms. [The Urban Dictionary]
Noted in “Meet the GOP operatives who aim to smear the 2020 Democrats — but keep bungling it,” Manuel Roig-Franzia and Beth Reinhard, WaPo:
As it turns out, the truth or falsity of a Burkman-Wohl-concocted story is merely an inconvenience. Let the media’s “puritanical” fact-checkers puzzle it out: That’s the view of this twosome who fancy themselves as sub rosa players in the 2020 presidential contest and busy themselves trafficking in Internet rumors they hope will damage Democratic candidates.
