Word: gagged
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...every dorm and doorbox in Harvard Yard. “It was a great idea,” says Svirsky, tooting his own proverbial horn. “It was harmless and will probably last for months.” But some callers didn’t get the gag. Corayer describes one caller who, he says, “couldn’t believe” the joke. “She was really hungry, I guess,” Corayer says. Corayer says that the number of calls has dwindled, but hungry callers keep dialing...
...Picture was no sure thing, because the film had managed to cause a rumpus on the left and the right. The main blasts came from Israelophiles who found the movie's anguished semi-evenhandedness a slur on the memory of a modern min-Holocaust. After Schindler's List, the gag went around town, "I knew Steven Spielberg before he was Jewish." Now, much of Hollywood was saying mournfully, "I knew Spielberg when he was Jewish." The ascendancy of Hamas (which Spielberg can't be blamed for) won't help. Neither will the film's middling box office. Three reasons...
...proceedings are secret. Internet and e-mail records, on the other hand, can be obtained with a National Security Letter (NSL) authorized by a senior FBI official. Criticism of these measures has focused on the lack of regular judicial review over these information requests and the “gag rule” said to bar recipients of such requests from ever speaking about them. Opponents of these provisions also say that the standard under which records can be demanded—relevance to a terrorism or intelligence investigation—is too broad and could potentially be abused. According...
...suspected terrorist or spy. Right now, the act only requires that the information be relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. Senators also argued that recipients of National Security Letter (NSL) information requests, who are banned from ever speaking about them, should be able to meaningfully challenge this gag order in court. In the version of the Patriot Act under discussion, recipients can argue against the gag order, but the court must accept a government official’s testimony in favor of secrecy as conclusive. Harvard’s Senior Director of Federal and State Relations Kevin Casey said...
...must make explicit a recipient’s right to consult with an attorney. But Edgar said that other changes may actually be detrimental to civil liberties. For instance, under the current act, a person who receives an information request from the FBI is under a lifetime gag order. The new legislation would allow individuals to challenge the secrecy of the requests in court, Edgar said. But he said this right is meaningless, because the bill stipulates that if a high-ranking government official testifies that such secrecy is required for national security, the court must accept that as conclusive...