The IPC spokesman said: "Classification must be carried out by the sport's relevant international federation, as they have the sport specific skills and knowledge that are required to classify athletes in that particular sport.
A representative for the committee, Jack Langer, said classification restrictions would not permit additional detail on whether the Taliban member actually committed a terrorist or militant act, nor which ex-detainee is believed to be the subject of the speculation.
Mr. Bush cited President Clinton's 1995 executive order on classification, which said classification authority would be held by agency heads and officials designated by the president.
Besides, she said, "Classification is an extraordinarily complex art.
Even with automation, he said, classifications systems are unreliable for serious searchers -- precisely because they rely on human judgments on labeling information.
In a Justice Department press release, Holder said, "classifications based on sexual orientation should be subject to a more heightened standard of scrutiny".
The article fails to mention that Gov. George E. Pataki informed members of the Croton Watershed Chapter of Trout Unlimited by official letter (the current president, John Keane, has the original copy) more than two years ago that the said stream classification would take place within the year.
LAPD officials also say classification errors are inevitable in a department that records more than 100,000 serious offenses each year.
Jennifer Post, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Environmental Conservation, which worked with the health department on the report, said the classification of the reservoirs, as well as Beaver Lake and the Susquehanna, Chenango and Unadilla Rivers, was a result of improved monitoring efforts -- not necessarily more mercury contamination in the waters.
