But some scholars and former prosecutors say the government should have known better than to bring some of its recent failed cases and that a lack of selectivity and judgment, along with a reliance on stale evidence and links to groups not at the core of the current threat, may be harming the effort to combat terrorism.
"Regrettably, the so-called 'agreement' reached today in the Senate Armed Services Committee will only harm the efforts of intelligence and law enforcement officials to bring to justice those who would harm Americans here and abroad," Mr. Leahy and Ms. Feinstein said.
Broad data collection programs by the United States government also harm the efforts of American Internet companies to market their services internationally by casting doubt on their ability to protect privacy.
Mr. Weiss asserted that such indoor bans would eliminate a competitive advantage for e-cigarettes and thus harm the effort to normalize this alternative behavior.
Some Europeans said such a move would harm the effort to win Russian and Chinese approval to crack down on the Guards' leaders and front companies for nuclear matters.
It declared the 83-year-old peer, who was chancellor for five years under Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, as a "has been" who would harm the effort to convince voters to leave the EU because he was too associated with the "Westminster bubble".
It also could harm the effort of law enforcement officials to use the DNA database to link defendants to other crimes, Dumanis said in an interview Wednesday.
The coalition wondered if his background would harm the effort, but kept him because of his unique organizational brilliance and trusting relationships at each organization.
Second, there was concern that these buildings could be used by terrorists to launch a subsequent attack or to deploy a secondary device (conventional or biochemical) with the specific aim of harming the rescue effort.
The command and control center was also staffed by the New York Police Department and, on page 304, the Deputy Chief Surgeon, Charles Martinez, describes his experiences, including the part he played in helping police to ensure surrounding buildings were not "used by terrorists to launch a subsequent attack... with the specific aim of harming the rescue effort" [ 2].
