A national-security letter is one such order, but there are at least two reasons to think Lavabit was ordered to participate in ongoing surveillance.
He was ordered to participate in an anger-management program and mental evaluation and not to contact "the victim's" family — including his own children and grandchildren — without the permission of a parole officer.
News reports estimate as many as 20,000 people have either volunteered or been ordered to participate in the operation, while 1,000 boats are scooping algae out of the Yellow Sea.
This is one of the less-discussed tragedies of the state of affairs at Guantánamo: it damages the prisoners and the young military men and women who are ordered to participate in deeds that go against any human's basic instincts.
That month, Agamemnon was ordered to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign.
Like de ja vu, a Delaware judge ruled that Richards, who's 6'4" and over 240 pounds, would not "fare well" in prison, thus instead of the eight years he was originally sentenced to, he received probation and was ordered to participate in a sex offenders treatment program.
Stephen Xenakis, a physician and frequent critic of medical conduct at Guantanamo, reported last summer that Pentagon officials "have said to us directly that if a provider objects for ethical reasons or other reasons they would not be ordered to participate -- and they would not suffer any adverse consequences".
In principle, hospitals are ordered to participate in emergency services.
A 92-year-old woman who acknowledged selling kits to help people commit suicide has been sentenced to five years' probation for failing to file federal tax returns and was ordered to not participate in assisting suicides.
The official said such flights are routine, and that the pilot was not ordered to participate by a superior.
