When she had successfullydonethis, she tookthe threadout of the needleagain and handed both the needleandthread to the judge, saying, "Now it is yourturn."
From the outset of his administration, Mr. Obama has been trying to threadtheneedle between national security policy and his ideological affinity with civil liberties lawyers and human-rights activists, meeting with and consulting them prior to making detainee-related decisions.
The initial accommodation that was announced last winter on the HHS mandate, it appeared to thread a needle to appease progressive Catholics that the administration had inadvertently upset during what was arguably a very politically charged time of an election year.