Mr. Warsame later pleaded guilty and has been cooperating with the government, providing intelligence information about his co-conspirators, who included "high-level international terrorist operatives," federal prosecutors have said in court papers.
Analysis at the national or multi-national level will be informative with respect to operative federal policies and regulation, aggregated impacts, and consideration of integrated strategies and benefits at a high level.
Still, his forceful objections came at a difficult time for the administration, which announced in November that it would prosecute Mr. Mohammed and other Qaeda operatives in federal criminal court rather than before a military tribunal.
The letter, also sent to the Department of Homeland Security, noted federal warnings this week that operatives of Al Qaeda might try to hijack cargo jets from Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean and fly them into nuclear plants.
In 2009, federal agents charged Hezbollah operatives in Philadelphia with attempting to buy thousands of stolen cell phones and ship them to Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates to finance the Shiite militant organization, which the United States considers a terrorist group.
Following a strategy used by prosecutors in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative case, federal authorities are traveling the country to interview athletes who have been linked to the Canadian doctor Anthony Galea, who is under investigation for distributing performance-enhancing drugs.
In the operative the federal agents confiscated three assault rifles, nine communication equipment, and more than US$38,000 and $25,000 pesos (about US$2,000).
The ramifications of this decision for many co-operative federal-state programs are far-reaching and will be litigated for years.
In a press conference to announce the Follow the Money Act, Wyden said that the bill would end "the flagrant abuses of federal tax laws by political operatives masquerading as tax exempt social welfare organizations".
But despite the resurgent mood surrounding the case, investigators are said to doubt, at least for the moment, that anyone is likely to be prosecuted for disclosure of the identity of the officer even though the unauthorized disclosure of an undercover operative is a federal crime.
