Word: withhold
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...They faced the threat of "sinking into the immiserated, semi-employed proletariat--with the hira mandi, or prostitutes' quarter, as the possible destiny of their sisters and daughters." It is men like those who may soon be tempted to venerate bin Laden's memory. We must persuade them to withhold the accolade; we can start by listening to their stories...
Ashcroft is not budging. His office told Congress it would continue to withhold the names of detainees, saying to do otherwise would compromise their privacy and potentially hamper the investigation. But it is also possible that Justice officials are as confused as everyone else about a definitive list. On Nov. 1 the department reported that from Sept. 11 to that date, 1,147 people had been detained nationwide. But at a briefing a few days later, Ashcroft spokeswoman Mindy Tucker said that senior department officials were not happy with the way the totals were being calculated. For one thing...
Last week, President George W. Bush drafted an executive order modifying the Presidential Records Act of 1978 that granted his administration power to withhold the release of presidential papers from previous administrations. Originally, the act required that sensitive documents and records be disclosed and open to the public upon request 12 years after presidents leave office...
President Bush’s order yesterday granting former presidents greater authority to withhold records requested by historians and other researchers is causing discontent among academics, who say the government is illegitimately blocking access to valuable resources...
...Maybe the interest of national security was being invoked in Bush’s attempts to withhold documents prior to Sept. 11, but we don’t know for sure,” Burden said. “Sept. 11 has made [Bush’s] order easier to implement. Now it looks less like the actions of a Republican trying to protect another Republican...