The editor was accused of having broken the law, compromising the identities of intelligence staff, by transferring unredacted files overseas.
Not all leaks are crimes, but here there is a law that specifically prohibits the disclosure of the identities of intelligence operatives.
The briefings will contain top secret information, but the candidates are given no information about covert action programs or the identities of intelligence sources.
Governments have good reasons for keeping secrets – to protect soldiers in battle, or nuclear launch codes, or the identities of intelligence sources, undercover agents and witnesses against the mob.
A14 Examining Use of Spy Cover The Senate Intelligence Committee will conduct hearings on American spy agencies' use of cover to protect the identities of intelligence officers, the committee chairman said.
The decision, which slightly expanded the authority of the police to investigate the digital files, came after a senior national security adviser to Prime Minister David Cameron told the court that a computer hard drive and memory sticks confiscated from David Miranda, the partner of Glenn Greenwald, a columnist for The Guardian, may contain the identities of intelligence officers.
The five terrorists, wearing the uniform and carrying identity cards of intelligence agents, entered Mogadishu's Naso-Hablod hotel after twin bombs exploded at the entrance, Col. Ahmed Yare, an intelligence officer, told the Guardian.
That would involve information that "would reveal the identity of UK intelligence officers or their sources or their capability (including the techniques and methodology that they use", or foreign intelligence material provided confidentially by another country").
A way can surely be found to do so while protecting the identity of sensitive intelligence sources.
