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Hyde Act
Sep 3 2008, Jayanta Bhattacharya

The Bush administration, through a gag order on its written responses to Congressional questions, had sought to keep the Indian public in the dark on the larger implications of the nuclear deal, lest the accord run into rougher weather.

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