On Aug. 9, the judge, Thomas F. Hogan, ordered that Mr. Cooper be jailed, and Time fined $1,000 a day, for refusing to name the government officials who might have disclosed the intelligence officer's identity to him.
Mr. Blair did not disclose the raw intelligence data that supported those conclusions, and the American people should not expect to be shown information harvested from sensitive collection systems like satellites.
Mr Blair insisted that intelligence reports show continuing intimidation of Iraqi scientists, and that while he could not disclose all the intelligence he sees, "in the end people have just got to make up their minds whether they believe me or not, I'm afraid".
Other possibilities are obstruction of justice or perjury charges, and possible violations of the statute that makes it a crime to disclose the identity of a covert intelligence agent.
In looking at violations beyond the original focus of the inquiry, which centered on a rarely used statute that makes it a felony to disclose the identity of an undercover intelligence officer intentionally, prosecutors have widened the range of conduct under scrutiny and for the first time raised the possibility of bringing charges peripheral to the leak itself.
But this was the first time his role was formally disclosed by the intelligence agency.
Ellison said that the Met had not disclosed all the intelligence information they had on officers to the Macpherson investigation.
A senior counter-terrorism official with the DGFI, who met Smith, told the Guardian she disclosed the existence of intelligence showing links between a number of individuals in the UK and Bangladesh.
Over the 16 years she worked in the Pentagon, officials said, she passed the Cubans top secret defense information and disclosed the identities of American intelligence officers -- but took no payment other than the reimbursement of some expenses.
The document, which remains classified, discloses the pivotal role British intelligence officials played in initiating and planning the coup, and it shows that Washington and London shared an interest in maintaining the West's control over Iranian oil.
