It rides rampant around our civil life, retaining our internet metadata, installing CCTV networks, threatening citizenship documents at ministerial fiat, and generally kicking over the ashes of smouldering Australian small-l liberalism.
Among them was the bomb threat called in to the FCC, but the sheer variety of schools, malls and homes he threatened, as documented in an indictment, is disturbing.
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, a member of the Senate budget committee, and Dave Camp, chairman of the House ways and means committee, are threatening to subpoena documents related to the Obama administration's decision to grant waivers under welfare reform.
James Thomas decided he didn't like what Google was doing to him — keeping track of his browsing habits, controlling his documents, threatening his family, peeing in his alley — so he decided to dump the company completely.
(This remains true even though AIPAC is embroiled in an espionage sex scandal that has it scrambling to find $20 million to pay off a former top employee who is threatening to produce documents exposing the lobby).
We also found little discomfort with the concept of providing a written signature on informed consent forms, as only two participants found signing such documents threatening.
What's more, this Administration's method of threatening to enforce guidance documents as if they were rules is now laid out and ready-made for Trump's Administration to deploy at will.
On paper, he would seem like the type of old-fashioned journalist that may feel threatened by a document like this.
Just before the final version of the research plan was released last summer, for example, senior Commerce Department officials shaping the document threatened to resign over last-minute efforts by senior administration officials to adjust wording, several scientists and officials involved in the dispute said.
The unauthorized disclosure of a top secret U.S. court document threatens potentially long-lasting and irreversible harm to our ability to identify and respond to the many threats facing our nation.
