Armed security personnel in civilian clothes were present at the protest tents but not near the fence in order to guard the high-profile political figures in attendance, obstruct intelligence-gathering by collaborators, and maintain public order.
The chief constable stands accused of obstructing him by refusing to hand over intelligence material, including details about police informers that the ombudsman said was essential for him to do his job.
THIS newspaper was established in 1843 to take part in "a severe contest between intelligence, which presses forward, and an unworthy, timid ignorance obstructing our progress".
By removing all restrictions on parliamentary tactics, Reid enables his co-partisans to be painted as obstructionists without ensuring that they will successfully obstruct anything, since Republicans might well eventually break the filibuster and pass the pernicious intelligence committee bill anyway.
A1 The German prosecutor conducting the United Nations investigation into the assassination of the former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri said that fresh evidence reinforced his earlier judgment that Syrian intelligence services were behind the killing and that Syrian officials were obstructing the inquiry.
Consequently, while the Admiralty had intelligence from several sources that the French fleet was headed for Egypt to obstruct Britain's trade routes to India, no way existed to get this information into Nelson's hands in time for him to act on it.
"There is some evidence that Nunes isn't just an apologist for the executive branch the fear or the concern is that he is in effect obstructing the investigation," Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St . Louiswho has written on intelligence oversight, told me.
Just before the election, the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, which has ruled since Mubarak's fall, slapped de facto martial law on the country, giving military police and intelligence agents the right to arrest civilians for a host of suspected crimes, some as secondary as obstructing traffic.
Conspiracy to obstruct justice.
He did not obstruct justice.
Mr. Obama has the judgment and intelligence to rescue our country again, but only if the Republican minority in Congress refrains from its past practice of obstructing the programs of Democratic presidents.
