Lustberg and others said the government's use of the SOD program skirts established court procedures by which judges privately examine sensitive information, such as an informant's identity or classified evidence, to determine whether the information is relevant to the defense.
To access that information, officials need only a written statement certifying that the information is relevant to an investigation.
Information is relevant to the extent that it can potentially alter a decision.
It would be interesting to know what she really feels, and it is possible to argue that such information is relevant to the electorate.
And when it's left up to the F.B.I. to decide what information is relevant to their investigations, they can vacuum up almost anything they want".
Judge Parker has already ruled that the information is relevant to the trial, but he has said the prosecutors can try offering unclassified summaries of at least some of the data, and some of those substitutions are due next week.
I have no idea why any of this information is relevant to the question of whether Venables or any other prisoner is deserving of legal representation, but it left me feeling vulnerable and my privacy invaded.
"We can maintain intelligence information only if there is a reasonable suspicion that the individual is involved in criminal activity and the information is relevant to that criminal activity," it said.
For instance, federal law says law enforcement agencies may monitor the phone numbers a citizen is dialing, as they are being dialed, after certifying only that the information is "relevant to an ongoing criminal investigation".
The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), which was passed in 1986 and remains the main law governing access to electronic communication, requires police only to certify to a court that the information is relevant to an investigation.
Whatever information is relevant to such processes as object recognition or confrontation naming is standardly characterized as 'semantic'semantic
