"This is no Gulf of Tonkin," said Ms. Slaughter, an opponent of Mr. Bush's request for broad military authority.
An international panel of experts has approved the Bush administration's request for broad exemptions to a ban on methyl bromide, a pesticide that is popular with agricultural businesses but damages Earth's protective ozone layer.
A22 Secret Court to Share Ruling A secret appeals court, in a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, promised to provide it with a copy of what is expected to be a signal ruling on the Justice Department's request for broad new wiretap powers.
SAC itself has received a subpoena from the federal government, which has made a request for broad swathes of information.By November 24th only one person had been arrested and charged with securities fraud: Don Ching Trang Chu, an employee at an "expert networking firm".
When I first read Stanton's requests to Lincoln asking for broad powers, I accepted his information control as a necessary evil.
"The request for broader powers is the excuse of first resort of anyone who's failed at national security or law-enforcement tasks," said Mr. Powers.
In response to a request for comment, the company provided information as to why the share offering did not require a shareholder vote, but did not respond to a request for broader comment.
The department said today that it intended to appeal the court's decision not to grant its request for broader authority to share intelligence information with criminal investigators, and that secret appeal papers were filed today with a special three-judge panel that oversees the surveillance court.
Judges in the present climate will be reluctant to resist a government request for a broad gag order.
It was in a case handled by Professor Cole in Miami this fall that the Justice Department made the request for a broad ruling from the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit permitting the use of secret evidence.
