"Say they're mercenaries or some kind of rogue operation and then let them twist in the wind?"

Q: Was it commissioned from the top or a rogue operation?

Israeli officials have dismissed the espionage as "a rogue operation."

Or, if it is, it's a rogue operation being conducted outside of the loop.

In a rogue operation, it takes one to catch one.

"What if this is a rogue operation of some kind?"

"Minister Gelovani, are you saying that this is a rogue operation?"

No further pressure would be brought on rogue operations of "cooperative" intelligence agencies.

This was strictly a rogue operation, and the men must be punished.

Their official position was that he worked for an unauthorized rogue operation.