Kulturkampf

[Alpacx]

There was also growing tension between the A.C.L.U. and the Justice Department, three former government officials told me. (The A.C.L.U. and a spokeswoman for Prelogar denied this account.) In later briefs to the court, the administration would brush off the Alabama revelations as “out-of-context excerpts” from “a different case.” In private, though, some administration lawyers worried that their allies had pushed them onto thin scientific ice.

Damning article.

A "Civil Liberties Union" being buddy-buddy with the government is fucked up.