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...then, of course, the services could always move overseas, to Tijuana or Antigua or Vancouver or the Cayman islands - if the servers are offshore, so's the defendant, and the long arm of U.S. copyright law won't do the labels or their artists much good. It's a tactic taken by many a gambling site - and the U.S. government is still struggling with how to deal with the situation...
...early to tell. It must be said, however, that the tapes are not very short. It's not five minutes of conversations. The opposition tactic has been to release more and more long tapes to prove that the recordings are not fake. And the government may have made a crucial error when they admitted that the voices on the tapes were those of Kuchma and other officials, and then fell back on the claim that the tapes had been completely reedited to have those voices say things they never actually said. The opposition believes it can easily verify that...
Adopting a tactic employed by Al Gore '69 during his presidential campaign, Galluccio repeatedly referred to the stories of Cambridge students and residents who were present in the crowd, such as resident Olga Ospina, a working parent who was having trouble finding affordable housing...
...Even if the campaign to discredit Ashcroft cannot derail his candidacy, many Democrats hope they can build enough negative energy behind the former senator to raise questions about those who vote in favor of confirmation. That tactic may prove particularly useful, of course, during the next election cycle, when some moderate Senate Republicans will return to their liberal-leaning states and be forced to defend their vote in favor of an attorney general so violently opposed by powerful local interests like organized labor and the civil rights lobby...
...Ranking Democratic committee member Patrick Leahy, in conjunction with other committee Democrats, used a perfectly legal but intentionally frustrating stall tactic, asking for an extra week to consider Ashcroft's nomination before calling a committee vote. The stay conveniently provides Dems with a chance to dig up more information on the nominee, which they hope will in turn stoke the flames of support for a filibuster, which some Democrats, notably Edward Kennedy, consider a real possibility once the nomination reaches the Capitol floor...