"They support Assad operationally on the ground, with strategic consultation, intelligence, weapons".
The list is updated periodically as the intelligence agency, in consultation with other counterterrorism agencies, adds new names or deletes those who are captured or killed, or when intelligence indicates the emergence of a new leader.
He spoke of "a very intensive consultation between intelligence, diplomatic and military representatives".
We had gotten instructions that anything we wrote in policy papers that mentioned weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, or Iraq would not be written by us through consultation with intelligence, which is how we used to do it.
"The panel members are being selected by the White House, in consultation with the intelligence community," national security council spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said.
"When you look at the totality of the events that are going on," he said, "we think it's prudent, after consultation with the intelligence community, to put some additional protections in place".
The PCS document, drawn up in consultation with the intelligence services, also said: "We assess that Miranda is knowingly carrying material, the release of which would endanger people's lives.
Caitlin Hayden, a National Security Council spokeswoman, said in an e-mail that "the panel members are being selected by the White House, in consultation with the Intelligence Community," not by Clapper alone, and that he wouldn't be "directing" them or determining their conclusions.
There were moments in the negotiations when the U.S. delegation thought it had reached agreement on certain points, only to find the Iranians returning to the table nixing it, apparently after consultation with the intelligence community or other hard-liners, Sherman recalled.
Some of the proposals, such as the creation of an FBI-style Serious Organised Crime Agency, reflect careful consultation with police and intelligence agencies.
