Among other, serious defects in this legislation is its substitution of institutionally unqualified federal judges for executive branch officials with respect to the task of determining whether source disclosure would be in the 'public interest.

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Kuby said his client had been an occasional source for New York's Joint Terrorism Task Force when it looked into previous terror plots, and a detective who had sought out Afzali as a source in previous cases would testify on the imam's behalf Thursday.

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That task has fallen to an unlikely open source project that is based on cryptography protocols and peer-to-peer distributed computing.

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On the face of it, though, relying on a single source limits the sorts of wave that can be produced, and therefore the types of task they can perform.

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