I believe that we have now obtained the balance between what in an ideal world we would like to do and what we can afford to do".
Documents obtained under Right to Information (RTI) laws reveal that Carmody blindsided his colleagues with a public statement that he would decide who sat in the court of disputed returns (CDR) during a cliffhanger election result in February.
He had also obtained a PhD in Islamic studies from the Islamic University of Baghdad, and would draw on both to legitimise his unprecedented claim to anoint himself caliph of the Islamic world in July 2014, which realised a sense of destiny evident in the prison yard a decade earlier.
In getting to grips with the Juncker saga, Vestager has already obtained the Luxleaks material.
These "subject access requests" can be refused on the ground that information was obtained for journalistic reasons.
Ensure that any footage stored is kept for no longer than necessary for the purposes for which it is obtained.
The FCO certainly knew that this "genocide equivocation" was dodgy: one internal memo obtained under the Freedom of Information Act admits that "HMG is open to criticism in terms of the ethical dimension.
But from that point, to listen in to the conversation a court's permission would have to be sought, he insisted, adding that the process applied only "very narrowly to leads that we have obtained on issues related to terrorism or proliferation of weapons of mass destruction".
Duncan Smith was asked by Andrew Marr to address a leaked document obtained by the BBC on Friday that appeared to suggest his Department for Work and Pensions was considering changes to industrial injuries compensation, child benefit, the carer's allowance and disability benefits.
In the United States, 1 in 3 women will have an abortion before the age of 45, and 1,058,500 obtained one in 2011, according to the Guttmacher Institute.
"By contrast, five of the eight bodies in our study yielded more than one type of tuberculosis – remarkably, from one individual, we obtained evidence of three distinct strains".
