Many leftwing economics commentators, having insisted for eight years under Obama that there is never any risk to US borrowing, now warn that greater borrowing by the Trump administration will pave the road to financial Armageddon.
In April, Mr. Ashcroft rejected the no-death recommendation in the Brooklyn case despite indications that the government's main witness insisted for two days that he could not identify the killer.
When accusations reached a critical level last year, the investigation fell to the attorney general, Peter G. Verniero -- Governor Whitman's former chief of staff and now a State Supreme Court justice appointed by her -- who had insisted for two years that incidents of bias were isolated at most.
Trafigura has been publicly insisting for three years that its waste was routine and harmless.
The Times noted that "government officials seemed not to understand that many of its foreign embassies had gone over to the rebels or shut down, insisting for two days that the journalists invited into the country could go to embassies for visas".
After insisting for two years that the anti-missile base had nothing to do with Russia and was all about Iran, missile defense proponents now say it is all about countering Russia.
The administration has insisted for more than five years that a legal pillar of the war on terror is that the military alone has the power to decide which foreign terrorism suspects should be held and for how long, and backing away from that would be a sharp change of course.
The board's chairman, Anthony R. Coscia, insisted, for instance, that the two finalists be given a term sheet for the deal.
Allison, now eighty-two, had insisted for years that he was pretty much finished as a songwriter and recording artist.
