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The Commission has not been able to discern any congressional purpose that would be served by tying the right to representation on movements that have no effect on either the alien's lawful immigration status or her legal right to pursue her claim in U.S. courts.
Although not subject to the Government Performance and Results Act, LSC shares the aspirations of that law to rationalize the budget and appropriations processes by tying funding into objective measures of the agency's performance.
In one realm of life--finance--almost everyone now accepts that technology is tying the welfare of Americans more closely to the welfare of foreigners; in a globalized economy, an economic downturn abroad can be contagious.
Perhaps they didn't, because they had in mind the conclusion of Aesop's famous fable--the one about the mice who decided to protect themselves from their "sly and treacherous" enemy, the cat, by tying a bell around its neck.
This aspect of KSM's account is not credible, as it conflicts not just with Murad's confession but also with physical evidence tying Murad to the very core of the plot, and with KSM's own statements elsewhere that Murad was involved in planning and executing the operation.