This was evidence we desperately needed in 1977 -- evidence whose existence F.B.I. officials had denied.
The documentary evidence, whose contents were reported urgently to Washington on Friday afternoon, immediately elevated the significance of other intelligence information gathered in recent weeks that had already been regarded as highly troubling, senior American intelligence officials said.
The green paper proposes to extend the availability of so-called closed material procedures (CMP) in all civil cases to any evidence whose disclosure might harm the public interest.
But this week's announcement that the "missing" four files of evidence whose absence brought down the case, had miraculously been found again in their original boxes and in the possession of South Wales police, takes the fiasco a stage further.
Seating his experts around a conference table on a soundstage, he bullies them through a re-examination of the evidence whose goal, essentially, is to determine what he might have gotten wrong in the movie.
By completing the transfer of this evidence to the anti-doping agency, the government managed to extricate itself from a bind: how to get evidence, whose secrecy is normally guarded, into the hands of those who have the power to use the information to bar athletes from competing in the Olympics.
