They don't want to be told 'You must do this.' " Dr. Kennedy, who is not paid for her work on the program, defended the products endorsed by the program, including sweet cereals.
Leah Hole-Curry, director of the program, defended its actions, saying they did not amount to rationing of health care.
The US government's privacy board has sharply rebuked President Barack Obama over the National Security Agency's mass collection of American phone data, saying the program defended by Obama last week was illegal and ought to be shut down.
Q. Governor, this program to defend the country against missiles has been problematic from the beginning from a technological point of view both during the Reagan administration and your father's administration, now during the Clinton administration.
Robert W. Perciasepe, head of the E.P.A. air program, defended the mandate for oxygenates.
1 Gun Program Defended The Clinton administration will continue paying local governments to buy back guns from private owners despite opposition in the House.
After receiving a figurative flood of listener complaints regarding the Lawson interview, the BBC Radio 4 Today program defended its practice of false balance, claiming, "we are satisfied that both this segment and our overall coverage is fair, balanced, and impartial".
She is a lawyer in the disability justice program, defending the interests of people with disabilities, at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest, a nonprofit civil-rights law firm in Manhattan.
Lawmakers and administration officials who support the phone program defended it in part by noting that it was only for "metadata" — like logs of calls sent and received — and did not involve listening in on people's conversations.
But a former Justice Department official involved in the development of the programs defended them as critical to counterterrorism efforts.
