If you try someone, you have to establish that the information you got was legally obtained.

At each one we would have more information at our disposal.

Their flat denials of any improper conduct were not consistent with information and documents provided by other witnesses.

He had tried to explain the way he felt to Danny once, about compulsive behavior and time rushing too fast and the Internet and drugs. Danny had only lifted one of his slender, mobile eyebrows and stared at him in smirking confusion. Danny did not think coke and computers were anything alike. But Jude had seen the way people hunched over their screens, clicking the refresh button again and again, waiting for some crucial if meaningless hit of information, and he thought it was almost exactly the same.

No one will even know whether a greater focus ... would have lead to the unraveling of the September 11th plot.

This individual had been engaged in flight training in the United States, and the FBI believed he was possibly a radical fundamentalist.