Interestingly, I noticed that the password is not case-sensitive kind of odd for a website that seems so focused on security.

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Once there, the case might not draw the usual 5:4 split for such politically sensitive questions, with Justice Anthony Kennedy casting the deciding vote.

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Yet, having spoken to Levine and others (including an experienced litigator) who did not want to be quoted in any way to do the sensitive nature of the case, I still think something about it violates my sense of fairness.

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But, says the government, in some cases the evidence has been gathered in ways that makes it inadmissible in court, and in other cases, although the security services are sure that the suspects are involved in worrying activities, there is not enough evidence to make a convincing case against them, or the evidence is so sensitive that it cannot be presented in open court.

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Though his comments are limited to that case and not intended to provide general guidance, they nevertheless shed some light on a hugely complex and sensitive issue.

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