Phrase Of The Day: 'Hot Seat'
"Hot seat" seemed to emerge as the favorite phrase on Tuesday among reporters who covered the Senate Judiciary Human Rights Subcommittee hearing on global Internet freedom. The term was used by several of us to describe what Cisco Systems General Counsel Mark Chandler was sitting in as he was grilled about the company's business dealings in China by Subcommittee Chairman Richard Durbin, D-Ill.
CongressDaily: Internet networking giant Cisco Systems took the hot seat at a Senate Judiciary Human Rights Subcommittee hearing today for reportedly having a role in the Chinese government's construction of a system for monitoring, censoring and prosecuting online dissidents who speak in favor of democratic values.
Dow Jones: Cisco Systems Inc. (CSCO) was on the hot seat at a Senate hearing Tuesday, where a senior officer apologized for including a Chinese official's comments about a popular dissident group in an internal document.
CNet.com: Senators on Tuesday pressed executives from Yahoo, Google, and Cisco Systems to justify their business practices in China and other Internet-censoring countries, with Cisco in the hot seat over new allegations of cozier-than-confessed ties with the Chinese police.
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