The manual also says agents need "no particular factual predication" about a target to open an assessment, although the basis "cannot be arbitrary or groundless speculation".
"Concerns about the possibility of compromised safety, witness intimidation or harassment of trial participants," Mr. Olson added, "are utterly unsubstantiated and groundless speculation".
China called the accusations "groundless" speculation.Hundreds of people were believed killed in and around Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, as security forces cracked down on members of an extreme Islamist group, Hefezat, who were demonstrating for stricter Islamic policies.
Society has a long history of wild, groundless speculation when it comes to assessing the merits, or otherwise, of any new tech on the horizon.
Xinhua news agency and other party-state media have called a US Department of Defence report on China's military modernisation and alleged state-sponsored military cyber-spying "groundless speculation" that could trigger an arms race in Asia.
For the time being, says Andrew Fabian of the Institute of Astronomy at the United Kingdom's University of Cambridge, chairperson of Hitomi's science working group, reports that the satellite is permanently lost are "groundless speculation".
He warned against "groundless speculation" but declined to give further details.
As Enright has recently said, the piece was an "emotional journey full of nuance and contradiction and self-appraisal", brutally honest about getting to the heart of the contradictions and dilemmas faced by the public when reading details of such an emotive news story, especially in the age of groundless internet speculation.
But we are firmly opposed to any groundless accusations and speculations, since they will only damage the cooperation efforts and atmosphere between the two sides to strengthen dialogue and cooperation".
Later, however, Mr. Jospin denied he would leave his post in early 2002, saying such speculation was "groundless".
