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When a government official leaks classified information, it is a crime, and the person should be tried and, if found guilty, punished. Journalists should be held accountable if they aid and abet in the crime. The natural conflict between the government and the press should be resolved by the Legislative and Judicial branches. It would benefit our society to have these cases taken to court. Nobody has the right to reveal sensitive information that has the potential to threaten our national security...
...that's exactly what Dr. Stephen Russell was hoping for. A cancer specialist at the Mayo Clinic, Russell does everything he can to aid and abet those viral bandits. He arms them with detailed instructions for finding their target cells and outfits them with specially designed protein keys to speed up entry. As far as he's concerned, those viruses are the good guys, since the cells they are attacking and destroying are cancer cells in a fast-growing tumor...
Bush acted. He declared war. Not just on terrorists--the old way--but on states as well. States that harbor terrorists, states that aid and abet terrorism, states that hunger for weapons of mass destruction (WMD). It all looks obvious now. It was not then. It was new: radical, dangerous and absolutely necessary...
...will rapidly spread like ink through blotting paper. Since arriving three months ago, the men of ODA 936 have launched numerous reconstruction projects, ranging from new footbridges to schools and clinics. Villages that are neutral or friendly benefit from aid. Those that haven't given up weapons or that abet the insurgents receive none. "We're generating the goodwill that engenders willingness to offer up information," says Custer, "and if bin Laden shows up, then we're ready to react...
...When the government forces a law school to abet a discriminatory employer...it undermines the school’s academic decisions, muddles the school’s message, and compels the school to carry a message and support a cause against its will,” the plaintiffs argue in the brief...