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...Just about everything changed in movies, in their content and their conduits to the audience. Yet Valenti, as the industry's chief lobbyist (his employers were the six major studios), made sure that business proceeded as usual, without federal interference or oversight. He politicked hard and heartily with his old Washington friends for favorable tariff rulings, and in the process maintained Hollywood's status as one of the few national cinemas not subject to government censorship. (It's also one of the few to receive no direct government subsidies for film production, so I guess that's a fair swap...
...have to strike that balance day in and day out,” Mueller said. “We do it with substantial input and oversight from Congress, privacy groups, and the ACLU. We should not be protected from scrutiny...
...Richard Bonnie, chairman of the Supreme Court of Virginia's Commission on Mental Health Law Reform, told TIME that the mismatch between state and federal law is simply an oversight that should be rectified. "I don't think people have given much advanced thought to this. Outpatient commitment is very rare event," Bonnie said. "The usual case, what was most in mind for the authors of the federal rules, was the cases where you see severe enough mental illness to be committed to the hospital. This was simply overlooked...
...Senate Republicans say they object to the Democrats' draft authorization because of provisions like making the overall intelligence budget public and creating a statutory inspector general for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Bush said last Thursday that unless these and other provisions that add Congressional oversight of the intelligence community are stripped from the authorization, he will veto...
...Congress is not an ideal institution to oversee the intelligence community, but it is all we have. And in order to help it do a better job, we probably do need to give it more oversight. At the same time I would feel better if it were taking on real issues of concern, not just worrying about how much we've been overpaying for bad intelligence. When the bill comes due, the price tag will be the least of our worries...