Then came a stream of audio recordings, faxes, Internet postings, and other communications, all asserting, or implying, that bin Laden was alive.
One actually finds marketing communications seriously asserting the expectation that organic RFID tags, for example, will be printed in the same process, at the same time, as the printing of visual labels on packaging.
Gone is the message of "roll-em back" prices and, in its stead, strong branding communications that assert the company's purpose.
Each ended with a White House-written paragraph asserting that communications were intercepted from terrorists who "possessed the capability and intention" to attack this country.
But Mr. Bush's communications director, Karen P. Hughes, asserted that the governor also wanted to show that he planned to contest California until Election Day.
Indeed, the communications workers union asserts that etown fired two leaders of the organizing drive because they favored unionizing and that the company dismissed 13 other customer service representatives to derail the organizing drive.
Indeed, as part of its contract battle with Verizon, the communications workers' union has began asserting in its picket signs that Verizon and its highly paid chief executive are part of the 1 percent, while the Verizon workers who face demands for concessions are part of the 99 percent.
"Is the president asserting the presidential communication privilege, which applies only to documents involving communications with the White House?" asked Senator Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Obama recently infuriated advocates of open government by asserting his right to restrict communications between federal workers and Congress.
Two years later, the Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the NSA, asserting that the agency's communications gathering is illegal and unconstitutional.
