"Rather than use its merger authority to protect the public against an expanding monopoly, the commission has allowed AT&T to extend the reach of its cable and broadband Internet service monopolies and extended the time during which it can abuse consumers and harm potential competitors," said Gene Kimmelman, co-director of Consumers Union's Washington office.
Other demands include restoring the duty on education standards watchdog Ofsted to report on a school's attempts to promote community cohesion – axed by the Coalition Government which, it argues, allowed abuses to go unchecked – and scrapping compulsory collective worship in schools.
But it was much harder on the British prosecution, which it said had abused the judicial process in opposing bail for the suspect, had tried to circumvent the law and had relied on "unsubstantiated assertions".
In all, the agency has conducted four investigations of the family since 2001, including two instances in which it found that abuse allegations against the Calbis were not substantiated.
Right after an epic court fight with Google in which it was accused of abusing its intellectual property, the software maker is now trying to dissolve another company's patents.
This followed the declassification of a 2004 report into interrogation abuses, which it listed as including blowing cigarette smoke into detainees' faces until they vomited.
Prosecutors at the attorney-general's office are investigating 1,296 such allegations since 2002.The government insists that it is committed to ending and punishing such abuses, which it says are isolated.
It was only because he believed that scriptural teaching had been perverted in the sacramental and moral theology of the Church of Rome, and the abuses which it gave rise to, that he dug his heels in and fired away.
Mr. Johnson has asked Horace Mann for a copy of its current procedural guidelines regarding sexual abuse, which it has agreed to provide.
BBC Scotland said it was putting up a "robust defence" of its staff in the face of a "barrage of abuse", which it said also came via email.
