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...dissenting opinions dismissed the majority’s semantic distinction, and Justice Martha B. Sosman quoted William Shakespeare in her dissent...
...terrorism alert to high from elevated--to orange from yellow. The accumulation of intelligence "got everybody as scared as I've seen them," says a Bush Administration official. "Each time in the past, there have been differing views about raising the threat level. This time there was no dissent...
...Bush administration’s hostility toward much of the NGO community—and toward dissent more generally—is reflected in a new initiative of the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies entitled “NGO Watch.” The initiative is motivated by the rather overwrought concern that the “extraordinary growth of advocacy NGOs...has the potential to undermine the sovereignty of constitutional democracies...
...it’s not just NGOs and individual protestors that are feeling the brunt of this current crack-down on dissent. The latest issue of The Nation includes a story that examines what journalists see as “deliberate decisions” on the part of Pentagon officials to restrict their ability to cover some of the more politically sensitive aspects of the Iraqi engagement, such as the repatriation of the bodies of troops killed in Iraq. And remember the case of Valerie Plame, the CIA officer whose cover was recently blown? An ongoing investigation is still trying...
...Bush administration is clearly determined to quash dissent; they’ve made a pretty good go at it already. But at the rate they’re heading it looks like they’ll have their hands full for some time to come...