Word: blackmailing
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After the U.S. suffered through two oil shocks during the 1970s, politicians vowed never again to let the nation be vulnerable to petroleum blackmail. That brave promise has gone unfulfilled. America today is as dangerously dependent on imported oil as it was a decade...
...voluminous dossiers. "Only they know how to find things," explains Werner Fischer, chairman of the citizens' committee. Some Germans want to preserve the files as a valuable historical archive. Fischer wants to see them destroyed on the ground that they could serve as a source of leaks and blackmail. "I am in charge of it," Fischer says, "but I don't want to see it. What if you find out about friends who informed on you? What if you find out that your wife was having an affair? Some things are better not known...
...estimated 5 million individuals. The supervision has not been leakproof: two prominent politicians were ruined by disclosures that they served as Stasi informants, and ex-agents are suspected of providing the damaging leaks. There are also rumors that a ring of former Stasi agents is using the files to blackmail ex-informers...
...shameful, but probably not all that surprising, that the Bush Administration has responded to Cristiani's blackmail with an indifference bordering on approval. Our government has obligations to defend arrested U.S. citizens abroad. But last week White House spokesperson Marlin Fitzwater announced: "There are clear indications of her involvement, that's for certain...It's fairly clear that those weapons were found there...
...role it plays in the military. Harvard has an explicit policy protecting the rights of gay students. The U.S. military and ROTC are in conflict with this policy because they do not allow gays, lesbians or bisexuals to join the services, claiming that we are more susceptible to blackmail and therefore pose a more serious risk to "national security" than do heterosexuals. Two recent studies commissioned by the Department of Defense (D O D) have shown that the claim is simply not true. The D O D has commissioned yet a third study, indicating an inability to accept this finding...