They officially maintain that the Internet is open and uncensored in China.
Even today, Chinese Communists decry dangerous Western influences and officially maintain that China's economic reinvention was the Party's achievement alone.
While the U.S. officially maintained its support of Aristide's government, it eventually looked aside as rebel forces took over in February 2004.
But, apart from a rapidly shrinking RINO rump, the G.O.P. officially maintains that the science is "uncertain," the scientists lack "integrity," and the government should be prohibited from doing anything about it.
Instead, the court relied on Hungarian maternity doctors: professionals who not only have no direct experience of home births but who officially maintain the statistically unproven position that home births are more dangerous that hospital deliveries.
Although there are still accusations of government interference in university affairs, the university officially maintains its administrative independence and is governed by a rector and a council that includes faculty and students.
The federal government officially maintains a "no policy" cultural policy -- despite its myriad tax codes, military bands, arts agencies, fellowship and exchange programs, educational standards, archives and museums, monuments, national parks, cultural attaches, broadcast regulations and copyright laws, and the First Amendment.
But the government officially maintains that, in Mr. Sposito's words, "the guerrillas do not exist in Brazil, only narcotraffickers," and has made it clear that it intends to keep its forces as far removed as possible from the combat in Colombia.
Days before the Israeli strike, Mr. Nasrallah issued some of his strongest statements yet of support for Mr. Assad, edging closer to confirming what the Obama administration has already reported: that Hezbollah is backing him militarily, not merely tolerating border crossings by some of its members to defend Lebanese citizens in Syria, as Hezbollah has officially maintained.
