"The bigger haystack makes it harder to find the needle," Sensenbrenner told me.
" All this is doing is making a bigger haystack, not finding more needles," Ms. Kelley said.
In purely practical terms, when you are trying to find a needle you don't build a bigger haystack.
"We are very close to a more comprehensive view in terms of systems enabling regulators to see the trading universe in intra-day updates," says Peter Axilrod of the Depositary Trust and Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the world's largest data repository.But some argue that having a bigger haystack of data makes it harder to find the really important needles.
They use a case study example of a "kidnapper based in a rural area [who] travels to an urban area to make ransom calls," in an effort to hide-out in an place where there is a greater volume of communication data to spy on and sift through i.e., a bigger haystack.
In 1972, Big Bad John, Bulldog Brower, Les Wolff, King Curtis Iaukea, Spiros Arion, Mark Lewin, Thunderbolt Patterson, Sweet Daddy Siki, Tarzan Tyler, Dewey Robertson and Big Haystacks Calhoun all toured New Zealand.
As I listened, he asked rhetorically, "Why would she and her fundraisers come out and raise so much money for the Obama victory fund?" In explanation of any perceived ambivalence he said, "If you have a big haystack, you are always going to find one straw that is different from the others.
Large haystacks stood in groups.
There is also a fine quote from Mrs Fidler concerning the absence of their son Harry from playschool the day he was supposed to do a painting of his home: "We couldn't have him drawing a big blue haystack – people might have asked questions".
