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Hardest to defend is Bush's recent regulation allowing federal agents to eavesdrop on certain lawyer-client conversations. The regulation covers citizens as well as aliens, encompassing people not even charged with crimes, much less convicted. Bush would eavesdrop unilaterally, without any O.K. from a judge. Nothing in Congress's recent antiterrorism legislation authorizes this unprecedented regulation; indeed, leading lawmakers were not even consulted. The Executive unilateralism here recalls Harry Truman's seizure of steel mills in 1952 to guarantee supplies for the Korean War. In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court ruled against Truman because Congress had pointedly declined...
...type of play they run is so unusual,” Tubridy said. “It’s tough to defend because it’s not something you’re used to. There was a lot of off-the-ball movement...
...fifth - and supposedly last - day of the conference, he stepped in to help his pal, beleaguered European Union trade Commissioner Pascal Lamy, who was struggling to defend the E.U.?s much-maligned Common Agricultural Policy. With the rest of the WTO seeking an apparently innocuous commitment to phase out agriculture subsidies, and France threatening to flounce out of the meeting if such a plan were accepted, Zoellick came up with a face-saving caveat. The words phasing out were kept, but they were preceded by "without prejudging the outcome of the negotiations," meaning that there was no need actually...
Even in the interests of combatting terrorism, we cannot defend such a cavalier sacrifice of the fundamental principles of our legal system and of the liberties which make America a country worth defending. Should any accused terrorists be tried in this manner, the gross lack of due process will severely undercut the validity of the verdicts in the eyes of the world—and, more importantly, in the eyes of the American people...
...premature to celebrate the Taliban's demise, warns Moscow Times commentator Pavel Felgenhauer. They simply retreated from Afghanistan's cities because they couldn't defend them against U.S. air power, and equally important, because they could no longer ensure food supplies for the civilian population. That responsibility, and the anger that will come if it is not met, now falls to the West, and the Taliban can return to the drug economy, which it had abandoned in the search for legitimacy. "Now the Taliban - no longer a government seeking international recognition but an anti-Western guerrilla force - can go straight...