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In an unusual movement, Mr. Bove insisted that the public prosecutors appeal against the decision at a judge of the district court, these people said. After he had weighed the request, Journal John G. Koeltl of the federal court of the southern district of New York wore the main magistrate judge, Sarah Netburn, to reconsider the application, the people said.

But the second time the government lawyers were doing even worse. Judge Netburn not only rejected the request for a search order, but she also ordered the government to adhere to a special condition: if public prosecutors ever try to make such a request for another federal court, they had to include a transcription of the sealed discussions in her court, these people said.

Part of the skepticism of the judge, these people said, stem from the absence of the case of lawyers at the federal public prosecutor of Manhattan. But public prosecutors in the southern district of New York were on their care to report the effort and had minimal involvement, these people said. A spokesperson for the office of the American lawyers in Manhattan refused to comment.

While officers of the Civil Rights have conducted the investigation that Mr Bove had demanded, they often pushed back against specific steps that he wanted to take, these people said with the argument that they were not justified by the available facts or contrary to the law and earlier practice, or both.

At one point, Mr. Bove FBI agents instructed the Joint Terrorism Task Force in New York to attract their raid coats, go to the Columbia campus and to stand in a Falanx near demonstrators. Within the Civil Rights division, the instruction was as deeply inappropriate and a flagrant attempt to intimidate students, these people said. The FBI agents did not have such a show in force.

At the beginning of April the investigation seemed to have been largely died, but there is nothing that Mr. Bove or others are breathing in the new life. In his wake, however, said that people who are familiar with the case said that it was the bad will and distrust between political initiative at the Headquarters of the Ministry of Justice in Washington and the public prosecutor in New York, as well as between that political approach and veterans of the Civil Rights Division, only worsened.