Critically, this process is seen as a way to protect youths rather than an intelligence gathering tool.
Mr. McCarthy has cited the episode as an example of how terrorists could use civilian trials as a kind of intelligence gathering tool.
They will also take place in the air, with drones an increasingly ubiquitous intelligence gathering tool and, when armed, a formidable weapon.
He added that another intelligence gathering tool — the telephony metadata database — "does not compare in importance to 702," arguing baldly that: "We can't lose 702".
Bulk collection of data is "critical for the discovery of threats and intelligence", argued the government's lawyer, reiterating the state's repeated claim that it relies on bulk inception of Internet communications data as a "vital" intelligence gathering tool.
Counterintelligence operations sometimes produce positive intelligence, including information about the intelligence-gathering tools and techniques of other countries and about the kinds of intelligence other countries may be seeking.
Moreover, she said, any changes would be subject to approval by the House, and the resulting delay could hamper the government's use of important intelligence-gathering tools, for which authority is set to expire next week.
CrowdStrike, which has an office in Crystal City, Virginia, is one of a new generation of security companies, such as FireEye, Damballa, and Mandiant, that offer clients a variety of active strategies — security and intelligence-gathering tools that bring the fight to the attacker in your system.
At issue is a newly disclosed plan that Mike McConnell, director of national intelligence, approved in May in a memorandum to Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, which puts some of the nation's most powerful intelligence-gathering tools at the disposal of domestic security officials as early as this fall.
Submarines are hugely capable and are excellent intelligence-gathering tools, but don't have much visibility — kind of like cyber warfare.
