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ACLU rejects grants over terror language:

The American Civil Liberties Union has rejected $1.15 million from the Ford and Rockefeller foundations, saying their effort to ensure that none of their money inadvertently underwrites terrorism or other unacceptable activities is a threat to civil liberties.

I have a bad feeling about this, that it's going to get distorted into the ACLU sympathizing with terrorists. I can see why they're doing it -- it's too broad of a catchall and limits the ACLU's speech too much -- but this is the kind of thing that the wingnuts love to twist into yet another "dissent is treason" squib.