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...feared civilian bureaucracy (total employees: 123,000) routinely clamps down on its low-level miscreants, it is prone to ignore wrongdoing by members of its old- boy network. At the same time, IRS managers appear to be so concerned with the agency's public image that they would rather suppress whistleblowers than root out unethical and illegal activity. Last week's hearings explored the results of a year-long probe by the subcommittee, which found evidence of misconduct and cover-ups involving more than 25 top IRS officials in ten cities. Among the allegations...
...similar code were drawn up with right-wing imperatives in mind -- one banning unpatriotic, irreligious or sexually explicit expressions on campus -- the people framing Wisconsin-type rules would revert to their libertarian pasts. In this competition to suppress, is regard for freedom of expression just a matter of whose ox is getting gored at the moment? Does the left just get nervous about the Christian cross when Klansmen burn it, while the right will react only when Madonna flirts crucifixes between her thighs...
Others argue that asking people not to buy lettuce is different from asking them not to buy a rocker's artistic expression. Ideas (carefully disguised) lurk somewhere in the lyrics. All the more reason to keep criticism of them free. If ideas are too important to suppress, they are also too important to ignore. The whole point of free speech is not to make ideas exempt from criticism but to expose them...
Despite concerns that the expansion will falter, most economists believe a modest slowdown is necessary to suppress inflation, which had grown particularly stubborn in the past two years. Consumer prices rose at an annual rate of 5.9% during the first half of 1989, up from 4.1% last year. "The economy was running too fast for its own good," says Francis Schott, chief economist for Equitable Life Assurance. "It was working itself up to an inflationary frenzy...
...damage from this "intelligence debacle" was topped off by a further scandal, said Kessler: the NSA and CIA had concealed their findings from the State Department. And to this day, Kessler contends, they have continued to suppress evidence of the most serious U.S. intelligence breach of the past 25 years...