Barra McGrory QC said the decision was made after careful consideration of "all the available evidence".

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Dan Schorr (then of CBS, later with CNN and now NPR), Mary McGrory (then of the Washington Star).

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Woods was edged out by Paralympic champion Amanda McGrory of the Unites States and Switzerland's Sandra Graf but was pleased to open her account with a podium finish in wet conditions.

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She won gold in the 200m and also claimed a silver and bronze, but American duo Jessica Galli (22) and Amanda McGrory (20) are closing the gap on the 11-times Paralympic gold medallist .

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Still more ironic is the fact that, on the very day that Miss McGrory bemoaned the administration's past inattention to technology security, the United States and other industrialized nations were agreeing in Paris to a wholesale decontrol of militarily relevant "dual use" technologies.

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"I know this decision will be disappointing to Mr O'Hagan's widow, family, friends and colleagues but the evidence that can be given by an assisting offender must be carefully evaluated and the test for prosecution applied on a case by case basis, " Mr McGrory said.

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Ironically in castigating the administration in general and in particular one of its senior officials, Undersecretary of State Robert Kimmitt, on this score Miss McGrory has improperly helped blur the record of two others who are culpable for that fiasco: former undersecretary of commerce Dennis Kloske and Rep. Sam Gejdenson (D-Conn.), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on international economic policy and trade.

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