Word: explicitness
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...broad and could potentially be abused. According to Casey, the revised version of the Patriot Act that Congress debated in December addressed some of the worries that had been voiced over these measures. The revised legislation, for instance, stipulates an NSL recipient’s explicit right to consult with an attorney. But a bipartisan group of senators argued that the legislation did not adequately respond to civil-liberties concerns, and, threatening a filibuster, they were able to block the renewal of the Patriot Act on Dec. 16. Political tensions were high. President Bush said that senators who voted against...
...necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons" involved in the 9/11 attacks. Tom Daschle, then the Senate Democratic majority leader, says the Administration knows it did not have that implicit authority because White House officials had sought unsuccessfully to get congressional leaders to include explicit language approving no-warrant wiretaps in the resolution. Attorney General Gonzales says the Administration decided to go forward with the program anyway because it was convinced that the President possessed the inherent power...
...many ways liberal institutions have come a long way. However, it should not take, say, the Ku Klux Klan to rise to prominence once again on Manhattan’s Upper West Side in order for there to be a public acknowledgement that subtle and explicit racism, sexism, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination are widespread, and sometimes violent, realities for minorities at liberal universities...
...fishing expedition,” said Edgar, a 1997 Harvard Law School graduate.In their letter, the nine senators who oppose the Patriot Act legislation wrote that the FBI should only be allowed to demand records of individuals who are suspected terrorists or spies themselves or have an explicit connection to suspected terrorists or spies. But Carter said that the FBI does not have the resources or the desire to go on “fishing expeditions.” In order to obtain records of the books an individual has checked out, Carter said, the FBI needs approval from...
...mission has made paranoia, rage, and guilt permanent fixtures of Kauffman psyche, and he predicts a similar fate for his homeland if it makes vengeance state policy. In these last frames Spielberg makes the connection between Israel in September of 1972 and the United States in September of 2001 explicit: as Kauffman and his handler part ways, their dispute still unresolved, the Twin Towers loom over the horizon. The distance between New York and Munich is shorter than we imagined.Spielberg provides no easy answers for the questions he raises in “Munich,” only a reformulation...