"We have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records program made a concrete difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigation," it reported.
"We have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records program made a concrete difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigation.
"We have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the program made a concrete difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigation," it said.
Methods following this approach must keep a description of the background that in the simplest case can be just a reference image, but in more sophisticated algorithms becomes often a quite complex representation, for instance involving a probabilistic modeling of the background pixel values.
In another instance involving a father and his sons, a researcher wrote, "Oldest boy starts singing "jingle bells, Batman smells," and the others try to join but don't know the words... Dad tells them to stop in a firm voice.
In 1998, for instance, in a case involving a New York Congressional candidate, Dal LaMagna, the commission ruled that a link between Mr. LaMagna's corporate Web site and his campaign fund-raising site was an illegal contribution because it provided something "of value".
In this instance, he used a case involving a victim of domestic violence from El Salvador to rule that survivors of such "private" crimes are not eligible for asylum under U.S. law.
In only one of those instances — a case involving an agricultural project — was the veto issued before a permit application was filed.
One, for instance, involved a lone Israeli soldier at an observation post on a hill a few dozen yards over the nominal line, although the next day he was joined by two armored personnel carriers.
The opening, for instance, involves a slightly laboured gag between the girls about perfume packaging.
