The U.S. ambassador to Burma, Scot Marciel, called the implication that aid groups had supported ARSA "absurd". First called Harakah al-Yaqin, or Faith Movement, ARSA emerged last year after raids on police posts in October killed nine.
On Sunday, an ABC spokeswoman said Mr. Olson was hired for his "specialized knowledge and expertise in immunity agreements" and took issue with what she called the implication that ABC was paying for the interview.
Nahid Mozaffari, a scholar and editor specializing in literature from Iran, called the implications staggering.
Michael Chertoff, a secretary of homeland security under President George W. Bush, called the implications of the European court's ruling "very troubling".
In a statement, Timothy D. Cook, Apple's chief executive, said the company would oppose the order and resist efforts to provide a "back door" to the iPhone, and he called the implications of the government's demands "chilling".
His lengthy report – from in front of Buckingham Palace, in case we were in any doubt this was a royal story – was followed by one from Nick Higham, another of the BBC's top guys, examining what 24-hour news is contractually obliged to call "the implications".
The cabinet will meet this morning to consider what it calls the "very significant implications" for Ireland, Britain and the EU.
The campaign has neither verified nor denied their authenticity, pointing instead to what it calls the political and diplomatic implications of the release just weeks before the election.
Others needed to be tested experimentally by deducing which observable events should follow if the hypothesis were true (what Hempel called the test implications of the hypothesis), then conducting an experiment and observing whether or not the test implications occurred.
