"To take another example, scientific warnings about the catastrophic consequences of unchecked global warming were censored by a political appointee in the White House who had no scientific training. And today one of the leading scientific experts on global warming in NASA has been ordered not to talk to members of the press and to keep a careful log of everyone he meets with so that the Executive Branch can monitor and control his discussions of global warming."

"In Martin Luther King Day address, Gore compares wiretapping of Americans to surveillance of King" at The Raw Story.

Gore sweeps across quite a bit of territory here; it's almost a State of the Union address, appropriate enough from one of either of the last two elected Presidents of the United States . . . . Would that it actually were.