Word: discreditation
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Severing his ties would allow Rove--who as deputy chief of staff runs a vast swath of the West Wing--to fight aggressively "any bull___ charges," says a source close to Rove, like allegations that he was part of a broad conspiracy to discredit Plame's husband Joseph Wilson. Rove's defense: whatever he did fell far short of that. Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be seriously weighing a perjury charge for Rove's failure to tell grand jurors that he talked to TIME correspondent Matthew Cooper about Plame, according to a person close to Rove. Rove corrected himself...
...couldn’t discredit this part of the religion, no matter how silly I felt holding two tin cans in my hands. Scientology offers its parishioners a confidant or mentor—a means of free and clear communication. A fringe benefit of total memory recall, I thought, might be the ability, or backbone, or freedom, to say what I wanted to say. Further, I thought that Scientology offers its adherents the inverse of the education I’m getting at Harvard. Scientologists discover the world by examining themselves. I try to learn about myself by examining...
...vocal segment of Turkish society, one that encompasses members of the military and the judiciary, and which is vehemently opposed to E.U. membership and the changes to Turkish law and customs that it would require. The aim of these groups is not only to derail talks but also to discredit Erdogan, accession's most enthusiastic proponent. Many see his concessions as a betrayal of Turkish national interests. "Tayyip bey," says Kerinçsiz dismissively, "has dug his own grave." In the runup to the E.U. talks, Turkey's two main right-wing and nationalist parties - which together form the main...
...story on Karl Rove's involvement in the disclosure of a CIA officer's identity provoked dismay at the lengths to which the White House will go to discredit critics. Others dismissed the affair as a partisan attack...
Darwin's theory has been a hard sell to Americans ever since it was unveiled nearly 150 years ago in The Origin of Species. The intelligent-design movement is just the latest and most sophisticated attempt to discredit the famous theory, which many Americans believe leaves insufficient room for the influence of God. Early efforts to thwart Darwin were pretty crude. Tennessee famously banned the teaching of evolution and convicted schoolteacher John Scopes of violating that ban in the "monkey trial" of 1925. At the time, two other states--Florida and Oklahoma--had laws that interfered with teaching evolution. When...