His decision would show which issue was more important: the citizens' right to free speech, or national security.

VOA: special.2009.10.29

Without mentioning the issue specifically, he restated the philosophy he had laid out in Thursday's speech on national security.

VOA: standard.2009.05.22

The Obama administration describes the address as a "major national security speech."

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

Colonel Pierre Buyoya, Burundi's current ruler, said in a Christmas speech that security had improved.

ECONOMIST: Burundi

But one merit of the American system is that, even when hard questions arise about the trade-off betweeen freedom of speech and security, there is a robust legal culture which enables people to fight back if their rights are infringed.

ECONOMIST: Islam, America and Europe

Among the technologies it accused Steve Jobs and his team of "borrowing" were wireless data, speech coding, security and encryption.

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