Bush administration, Defense Department get Muzzle awards

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The Bush administration and the Pentagon are both among the 2007 Jefferson Muzzle award winners.

The prize is given by a free-speech group to those it considers the worst violators of the First Amendment rights in the past year. The selection was made by the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression.

The center says the Bush administration attempted to discourage, modify and sometimes censor government scientists' reports and studies on global warming. And the Pentagon was cited for what the center says were covert investigations of organizations that conducted peaceful anti-war protests.

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