Referring in an editorial Thursday to the firestorm of anger and revulsion that had followed the recent bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland, the paper said that this new crackdown, so late in the day, smacks of over-reaction.
The paper said this new crackdown is not over-reacted. 
mnli hypothesis: The paper said this new crackdown is not over-reacted.  premise: Referring in an editorial Thursday to the firestorm of anger and revulsion that had followed the recent bombing in Omagh, Northern Ireland, the paper said that this new crackdown, so late in the day, smacks of over-reaction.