Having evidence of a pet is risky, and it definitely narrows the market".
"The legislation is about shooting the messenger and not having evidence obtained about animal security," he said.
Without having evidence enough to convict, there was no use in trying to obtain custody of any of the men.
Formidable as the task may seem at present, the long-term need is to persuade Americans that having evidence for your beliefs is a good idea.
I don't know that he could have done it on papers alone, but he could have relied more on papers and less on oral testimony less on having evidence presented by live witnesses subject to searching cross examination".
Why did they avoid interviewing other key figures mentioned in Glenn Mulcaire's notes – like Ian Edmondson, now sacked by NI, whose emails have just been given to the Met despite them having evidence of his role for five years?
"Though we're still far from having evidence which proves it correct," Mayer notes in a public lecture she began giving this year, "we can find tantalizing grounds on which to find it appealing".
So despite having evidence that the tapping and hacking may have been far more extensive than Coulson or Mulcaire admit, the police have only investigated further or prosecuted in relation to a tiny proportion of those almost certainly affected.
But if the infraction was described as fraud and the person apologized, viewers' trust evaporated — and even having evidence that he had been cleared of misconduct did not entirely restore that trust.
One of them, David C. Jacobs, 35, known to friends as Bulletproof, publicly boasted of having evidence to link players for the Dallas Cowboys and the Atlanta Falcons to steroids.
Another was for the right for agents to accompany Yemeni investigators as they follow the evidence trail, or at least to be brought in by the Yemenis immediately afterward, to minimize the risk of having evidence tainted, inadvertently or otherwise.
