Consider the following: Oscar Arias, current president of Costa Rica and the main politician behind CAFTA, owns the biggest sugar cane plantation in his country (called "Ingenio Taboga").

this move by the US government was well planned since they are directly affecting the business of their "partner" in Costa Rica. US government could easily get away with it.

Finally, Reuters released OpenCalais as free open-source software. OpenDover will appear any time soon. (someone may then connect both using a Channel, SSH perhaps)