Intelligence sources from three countries have warned him to be careful.
That has changed, said John Ashcroft, the attorney-general; the Bush administration increased financing for counter-terrorism.The problem, in his view, was "the wall"—the legal separation between intelligence analysts and criminal investigators, erected to protect intelligence sources from being exposed in court.
And that is, in the person of Osama bin Laden, the United States had in its grasp the single greatest intelligence source from an enemy in perhaps a half century, unarmed and posing no threat to American forces.
"There will be intelligence sources coming from security and from cleaning for example - these are functional areas that have been involved in anti-doping in previous games, we will be educating those personnel in those functional areas so that if they should come across behaviours that are untoward they share that information with us".
They had learned this not from national intelligence sources, but from a novel: Tom Clancy's "Debt of Honor," published in 1994, in which an airliner is flown into the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., nearly wiping out America's political leadership.
"What we have got to consider, because much of this evidence comes to us from sensitive sources, from intelligence sources, is how much we can present to people," the prime minister said.
In a statement that was read to reporters, Rushdie said that he'd received information from intelligence sources that "paid assassins from the Mumbai underworld may be on their way to Jaipur to 'eliminate' me".
British officials said they gleaned information about the meeting and its location from intelligence sources inside the city and from prisoners of war.
The Shabab fighters were standing in formation at a facility the Pentagon called Camp Raso, 120 miles north of Mogadishu, when the American warplanes struck on Saturday, officials said, acting on information gleaned from intelligence sources in the area and from American spy planes.
The Director of National Intelligence shall protect intelligence sources and methods from unauthorized disclosure.
President Bush should not let a blanket concern about protecting intelligence sources dissuade him from releasing enough intelligence to make our case.
