By revealing authorship the intelligence authorities have just made it more difficult to do the next intelligence operation.
In many ways, the end result was like undertaking a classic intelligence operation.
He gave the example of a human covert intelligence operation being at risk as being a good proportional reason to keep it secret.
All true, and he suggested the regulators can't handle complexity, opaqueness and systemic risk--a terrible admission that ranks as the domestic version of our intelligence operation before Sept. 11.
The secretiveness stems from the belief that a populist intelligence operation with virtually no resources, designed to publicize information that powerful institutions do not want public, will have serious adversaries.
There is a growing realization among some legislators that the Bush Administration, in recent years, has conflated what is an intelligence operation and what is a military one in order to avoid fully informing Congress about what it is doing.
Carolyn Wood, who played a key role in the intelligence operation at Abu Ghraib, testified that she was shocked, disappointed and outraged by the conduct -- which, she says, went far beyond the intelligence orders she had given to the MPs at Abu Ghraib.
Under federal law, a Presidential Finding, which is highly classified, must be issued when a covert intelligence operation gets under way and, at a minimum, must be made known to Democratic and Republican leaders in the House and the Senate and to the ranking members of their respective intelligence committees the so-called Gang of Eight.
Now, as even the New York Times grudgingly noted, this was a legal intelligence collection operation.
Thousands of documents and hundreds of computer disks are being examined by 40 detectives who are working on the Castlereagh case and the alleged IRA intelligence gathering operation at Stormont.
Mr McGimpsey made the comments after Acting Deputy Chief Constable Alan McQuillan said on Monday that the police had broken up a major IRA intelligence gathering operation in Belfast during their investigation.
For now, most scrutiny has fallen on the delicate business of international intelligence co-operation.
Security and intelligence co-operation between America and Israel is as deep as it has ever been.
Alliot-Marie said military and intelligence co-operation between Paris and Washington had been unaffected by the split over Iraq.
The men were arrested by armed officers from the Metropolitan Police's Counter Terrorism Command in a pre-planned, intelligence-led operation.
Two men aged 25 and 23, both foreign nationals, were detained in Kinross as part of an intelligence-led operation.
Officers from the police's Central e-Crime Unit arrested the teenager in what they describe as a "pre-planned intelligence-led operation" on Wednesday.
The Gwent force (population 560, 000) also conducted an intelligence-led operation resulting in 1, 935 tests, with 39 being positive, failed or refused.
The demise of the Arellanos is a result of the greater trust, and therefore closer intelligence co-operation, between American and Mexican officials.
For the next twenty minutes, the mission shifted to an intelligence-gathering operation.
That is in large part thanks to legitimate intelligence co-operation, not torture.
And it curtailed the intelligence co-operation which presumably helped identify targets for those attacks, as well as lead to terrorist suspects in their hideouts.
It has cut off intelligence co-operation, which, for all its shortcomings, had led to a steady stream of arrests and killings of American targets.
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NATO's counter-terrorism activities something that might give more substance to the alliance's future role in the war on terror, given the importance of Russian intelligence to that operation.
Shadow foreign secretary William Hague said the potential disruption of the intelligence-sharing operation between the UK and the US would have "serious consequences" for Britain's national security.
Miliband told the UK's Channel 4 News Wednesday that intelligence co-operation between nations relied on confidentiality and that there would have been repercussions if the papers had been released.
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It said its operation was intelligence-led, and resulted in 156 tests being positive, failed or refused.
Intelligence officials said the operation had been ordered by the Farc's number two leader, Ivan Marquez, believed to be in Venezuela.
The Central Intelligence Agency ran the operation in conjunction with Idaho National Laboratory, the Israeli government and other U.S. agencies, according to people familiar with the efforts.
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