Word: dissenters
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...quarter-inch of every CIA employee's personnel file, an ironclad secrecy agreement forbidding such. It is the law--and properly so. One can easily defend the need for unyielding discipline when it comes to guarding the nation's secrets. And one can point to legitimate internal channels for dissent. But all that may be irrelevant in today's charged atmosphere, in which the policies of the agency--alleged torture, slapstick renditions, secret detention centers, wrongful-death investigations--have divided the CIA population as sharply as they have the American people...
...intelligence community to make thousands of declassified documents secret once again. To Tom Blanton, head of the G.W.U.-affiliated National Security Archive, which monitors government secrecy, the FBI's request to scrub Anderson's files "looks like another front in the government-wide effort to squash dissent...
...billions they'd amassed during the Yeltsin years, the Yukos tycoon returned to face a trial widely viewed as crooked, and ultimately prison. In many an eye, that may have transformed him from yet another sleazy oligarch into the latter-day equivalent of that Soviet-era icon of dissent: a prisoner of conscience. "The Kremlin has done free campaigning for him," quips legislator Alexei Mitrophanov...
...Kremlin has created its own loyal and controllable “civil society” while suppressing independent civil society. Because of this infringement of civil liberties and suppression of all independent forces, Russia faces the threat of an increase in extremism; if all avenues for legitimate dissent are eliminated, extremists become the only real independent actors. Russia’s current power structure is unable to free itself of the old paradigm: “to govern is to control and to manipulate.” Open and equal discussion—prerequisites for and results of a vibrant...
...that at times crippled the military's effectiveness, many leaders who wore the uniform chose inaction. A few of the most senior officers actually supported the logic for war. Others were simply intimidated, while still others must have believed that the principle of obedience does not allow for respectful dissent. The consequence of the military's quiescence was that a fundamentally flawed plan was executed for an invented war, while pursuing the real enemy, al-Qaeda, became a secondary effort...