"We each have to look inside and say, is the fear warranted?" The fear was reflected in a stampede for the safety of government securities.
But Mr Balls (who was a Treasury bigwig during the spending boom) does not believe that such an admission is warranted, and fears it would serve as a political gift for the Tories.And the future poses its own quandaries for Mr Miliband.
There's lots of things we Americans are afraid of that never warranted the fear – saccharin, vaccinations, low levels of radiation - but the Great Cranberry Scare was probably the biggest scare over the shortest time period in our Nation's history.
Spitzer said his office, working with the firm Crowell & Moring, represented Viola and Frank Briggs because their case spoke to the carelessness of police in making sure they had the right location for a warrant — and the fear the raid left in its wake.
This, though, is in contrast to the image she projects earlier, in her interaction with the first pupil; while Lauren Worsham effectively conveys the young girl's nervousness and lack of stage presence (or "look," as Callas would have it), we don't sense in Ms. Walsh enough of the tigress that would warrant such fear and apprehension.
But the bank also wanted to repurchase its warrants, fearing it could remain subject to pressure from the government or another outside investor.
"For those of us who feared that R2P was just a warrant for war, our fears have been vindicated," says David Rieff, an advocate-turned-critic.Responsibility to protect gained ground after ghastly mass killings in the late 20th century, including massacres by the Khmers Rouges in Cambodia in the 1970s; the use of chemical weapons in Iraq in 1988; and ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
Had my memo been in place in August 2001 -- when, as Ashcroft said, FBI officials rejected a criminal warrant of Moussaoui because they feared "breaching the wall" -- it would have allowed those agents to obtain a criminal warrant without fear of jeopardizing an intelligence investigation.
And to some extent the fear was warranted: "Life in a Day", a documentary compiled from footage sent to YouTube, celebrates a shared humanity very like that which such ads seek to engender.
Mr. Savage, who is licensed to carry a pistol and does so, said the secrecy was warranted by his fears for his life, based on the sheaf of death threats he says he has received over the years.
