Categorically false, says the other side, with claims of their own: that Indian Point is superfluous and could be shuttered with little effect on energy supply or cost.

Dean Boyd, a spokesman for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, called the accusations, which spurred protest rallies in two cities yesterday, "categorically false."

He called those statements categorically false and branded the people behind them tools of the Bush campaign.

"Categorically false."

Hezbollah describes the accusations as "categorically false".

"The suggestion that I lied regarding the President's role in approval of Israeli arms transfers is categorically false," he said.

"That is categorically false," said Checketts.

Her Shoe Dazzle partner and the Institute for Global Labour and Human Rights have come forward to say that these charges are categorically false.

Mr. Morgenthau said last week that suggestions that the B.C.C.I case was a vendetta were "categorically false."

"This is categorically false," he declared.