If all had been discharged, it could have claimed proof that the case was fabricated.
The fact that Hatch agreed to only two was, he claimed, proof of the senator's fading stamina.
The arrests are also, the source claimed, proof that the operation is flourishing despite being under considerable pressure.
The left-wing PRD claimed proof that some loans by a now bust bank went into the ruling PRI's 1994 election chest.
The potential of Internet-based collaboration was vividly demonstrated this month when complexity theorists used blogs and wikis to pounce on a claimed proof for one of the most profound and difficult problems facing mathematicians and computer scientists.
It was hardly, as Russian media claimed, proof that the State Department was directing the Maidan protests, but it certainly showed they were more involved than might be expected in Ukrainian political appointments.
Courts have played along, permitting them to use all sorts of ruses, including outright lies -- claiming "proof" of guilt from fabricated polygraph tests, false eyewitness reports, false findings of fingerprints, hair, blood or semen at the crime scene.
Wen et al.'s protocol carries a claimed proof of security in a formal model of communication and adversarial capabilities.
This proposal attempts to overcome many of the well known security and efficiency shortcomings of previous schemes, and it also carries a claimed proof of security in the random oracle model.
