Word: defendable
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...innocent people. It is most appalling now to see that the torture has not ended but is simply being inflicted by different people. Even if it took place in only one prison, it is enough to make the already explosive situation in Iraq much more volatile. Some Americans might defend the actions of the guards at Abu Ghraib by arguing that Iraqi insurgents would do much worse to captured U.S. citizens, as unfortunately was the case with Nick Berg. But the U.S. should certainly not rely on the same methods that terrorists use. Because of events at Abu Ghraib...
McLaughlin may need his magic powers, for one of his first challenges will be to defend the agency against attempts by the Pentagon, which already controls 90% of the roughly $40 billion the U.S. spends on intelligence annually, to take over more responsibility for gathering and analyzing intelligence. But Tenet's departure may set the stage for much larger changes. The 9/11 commission report, due out on July 26, is expected to call for the creation of a new Cabinet-level chief who would consolidate control over all the nation's disparate intelligence operations--an idea supported by Bush...
...moonlighting as cocaine smugglers. But crew-cut 08, guzzling black coffee and smoking cigarettes, denies it all. "We've never been drug traffickers," he insists. And like other AUC leaders, he vows the group will never give up its wealth or submit to prosecution in the U.S. "We'll defend our freedom to the death," he says, a pistol slung from his hip. He leans back in a rawhide chair and calls his pet jaguar. "I don't like to keep her in a cage," he says as rifle-toting AUC soldiers in battle fatigues look on, amused...
...while the Crimson might not have had the firepower to upstage the No. 1 Midshipmen, Harvard was also bested by both Princeton and Yale, each of whom, like the Hoyas, the Crimson had already beaten to successfully defend the Goldthwait Cup at H-Y-P in the season’s final dual...
...problem [with the Brown game] was that we didn’t figure out how to defend the set plays until after we had already given up two goals,” junior back Liza Barber said. “It was one of the few games where we came off the field and said, ‘What did we do?’ We just didn’t play well...