Word: watchdogging
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...observer of Texas politics e-mailed this description of him: "Thoughtful. Conspiratorial. Crusader. Half-whacked. Smart. Insightful. Wise. Nuts." Well, not nuts. But most of it has a kernel of truth. Earle's reputation as conspiratorial derives largely from the workings of his office's public-integrity unit, a watchdog office that prosecutes those (including elected officials) who commit crimes in the course of their dealings with the state. Earle's job, in other words, is to root out conspiracies...
...namo is the military's turf, "and they couldn't give a rip," says one U.S. diplomat - London wasn't even given advance notice of the decision to try Abbasi and Begg in Guantánamo. Luigi Manconi, a former Italian senator who now heads the human- rights watchdog A Buon Diritto, thinks the Pentagon is in the grip of a preventive-war mentality. "It's an attitude that we must strike the haystack in the hope of hitting the needle." Legally, Blair has few good options. He can't guarantee to Washington that the two men would face trial...
Boston attorney Harvey A. Silverglate, co-director of campus watchdog group the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, said the new format was unacceptable, calling a comprehensive police log—including police activities not relating to criminal acts—“an essential part of democracy...
...destined for peaceful purposes. North Korea is skilled at using front companies with ever-changing names to disguise the real end user. As a Western diplomat notes, a machine for freeze-drying coffee can also be used to make anthrax spores. Says Akio Igarashi of the Tokyo-based watchdog Center for Information on Security Trade Control: "With North Korea you don't know if a lunch box you export will end up as a container for nuclear material...
...when Champion left Cambridge to join the Carter administration, he says the watchdog firm was fired...