Instead, historians who came of age during the civil rights movement emphasized ways in which the former slaves asserted their agency, playing as important a role in their own liberation as Lincoln or the Union army.
Exaggerated reports on an agency program called Echelon asserted that the agency and its counterparts in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia somehow intercepted all world communications.
Commissioner Jonathan S. Adelstein, who voted against the proposal, asserted that the agency lacked the authority to rule as it had.
He asserted that the agency had "cherry-picked" its data and "adjusted established procedure and scientific norms to validate the agency's public conclusion".
But Ms. Rubalcava asserted that the agency also provided financial services not authorized in its district contracts.
Like Doctor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley's great novel, not only has our creation asserted its own agency, but it now wields its power over us.
But Mr. Batterman asserted that the agency shop demands were prolonging the strike and were designed largely to increase the union leaders' power.
The omission, he asserted, reflects the agency's reluctance to scrutinize the fallout from its support of the anti-Soviet jihad.
In 4 minutes 26 seconds, the clip asserted that the agency's sale last year of the assets of the failed bank IndyMac to a group of private investors was a sweetheart deal.
Senator Sam Brownback, Republican of Kansas, asserted that the agency's decision "was pushed by politics and not by health," while Representative Christopher H. Smith, Republican of New Jersey, described the drug as "baby poison".
Fortier, who said that he had been interviewed by the FBI over four days, asserted that the agency had modified the two composite sketches of John Doe No. 2 that they have distributed "to fit my face". At the hearing in El Reno, FBI agent Hersley said that two of the witnesses had identified McVeigh from a composite drawing and one from a live line-up.
