He said it "contains powerful incentives to induce pleas that yield long sentences and gain intelligence".
What wouldn't you do to gain intelligence from an Al Qaeda suspect?
"Businesses have to be able to predict risk and gain intelligence on potential problems," says ex-Tesco lobbyist Bernard Hughes.
A counterpart to SIGINT gathering is known as electronic support measures (ESM) to gain intelligence about the enemy.
An experienced CIA debriefer came from Kabul for the meeting, suggesting the purpose was to gain intelligence, the official said.
The aim was to use these deals to gain intelligence about Iran's military network and 'disrupt' its weapons-of-mass-destruction programme.
There is ample precedent demonstrating that terrorists use hoaxes to erode the vigilance of the authorities, divert the attention of the authorities and gain intelligence on response patterns.
One Pentagon official said a goal of the raid was to flush out Taliban leaders and soldiers, to gain intelligence on the enemy.
Its cases rarely make it to trial; the purpose of its investigations is to gain intelligence that can be used to fight national enemies.
Officials said today that while the opportunity to gain intelligence from the two men was lost, the blame for their deaths was their own.
Lambert denied it, but added: "It was necessary to create the false impression that I was a committed animal rights extremist to gain intelligence".
