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The policy “represents one of the most caustic, corrosive and chilling efforts to squelch the voice of this commission, the office of inspector general and the Sybil Brand Commission,” Johnson said.

Veiel’s inquiry becomes a time capsule from the 20th century with creepy echoes in our current era of corrosive dissembling.

If there is a sense that no one is safe – that public life itself has become a blood sport – that will have its own corrosive effect on American politics.

Mobile phones are prohibited in prisons and considered to be as corrosive as drugs to a prison environment over concerns that they can further criminal activity, like moving drugs, intimidating witnesses and even organising escapes.

“The damage of using a phone is as corrosive to a prison environment as drugs are,” he said.