Ministers admitted delays in launching the system last year because of the amount of information involved.
Prosecutors, however, disagreed and said the information involved activities of an unidentified black leader.
Certainly, if they'd been able to just make an assessment of his writing style and the information involved, it was insanity not to accept the material".
The answer becomes even more difficult when two securities regulators reach different conclusions about whether there was any confidential information involved.
And the Georgia Legislature passed a bill making secret much of the information involved in the state's lethal injections, which would stymie legal challenges.
To prove insider trading, the government must show that passing the information involved a breach of a duty of "trust and confidence" to maintain its confidentiality.
For example, the Reporter Committee for Freedom of the Press, which was not privy to any confidential information involved in the case, wrote a "friend of the court" brief on behalf of more than a dozen news organizations.
Mr. Kern, who was also a director of Allied, denied any wrongdoing, saying that the information involved a possible alternate bid for Allied that was too poorly financed to be taken seriously.
Galley's solicitor, Neil O'May, insisted the information involved was of the "lowest level" and attacked the nature of the police investigation, which included the Home Office official being held for 17 hours after a dawn raid on his home by anti-terrorist officers two weeks ago.
Hammond told the committee that GCHQ's bulk collection of private data from emails, internet activity and telephone usage did not amount to mass surveillance because the state did not have the resources to trawl through the huge volume of information involved, and because of legal safeguards on how the data was used.
The PR' is gradually increasing as more reference information involved.
