The minister, upset, posted a defense.
Tavi's sister Miriam posted a defense in the comments section: "Tavi's my little sister, and she's definitely twelve and definitely hasn't gotten any help from anyone".
Mr. West, who is currently on tour, was released without being charged and posted a defense on his blog over the weekend, insisting that he had merely tried to block the camera.
Koppenhaver is under investigation by Las Vegas police in connection to the beating, but has posted a "defense" of himself on Twitter (where his bio reads simply: "I do Alpha Male shit").
In December, a row erupted when a 25-year old veterinary student at the University of Bologna posted a defense of animal research on her Facebook page, which triggered a torrent of verbal abuse.
Working with Whisper, the secret-sharing mobile app, we found several examples of people anonymously posting a defense of special treatment student athletes receive.
The seeds of the troubled reconstruction effort date to late January, when Mr. Rumsfeld coaxed General Garner away from a top post at a defense contractor to lead perhaps the most ambitious postwar effort since World War II.
'Israelis and Bush Knew' As word of the reading spread, Mr. Baraka posted a lengthy defense on his Web site.
Finally, Starbucks' headquarters in Seattle posted a plaintive defense on Twitter: "hey, we're not closing public bathrooms at all, that's not true".
In Virginia Mr. Everett, who flunked out of ninth-grade algebra, eases into his first physics lesson with Don Reisler, a colleague and friend of his father's whom he has not seen in 25 years; and in Washington he gains clearance at the Pentagon, where a disillusioned Hugh Everett went to work, post-theory, as a defense analyst.
Ghomeshi posted an emotional defense of his actions on Facebook in an effort to get out in front of the story, and hired a public relations firm to help him.
