"They were forcing the intelligence community to defend its good information and good analysis so aggressively that the intelligence analysts didn't have the time or the energy to go after the bad information".
The justice and security bill would extend closed material procedures into the main civil courts, allowing the government to exploit intelligence material to defend itself against allegations such as torture.
The special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak investigation said he did not expect the White House to try to block Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide from using classified intelligence material to defend himself against perjury charges.
To ignore these communications as a vital intelligence source to defend the nation would be imprudent and irresponsible.
Even if it's not Hayden, you can bet over the next few days that in almost every newspaper article and on every cable-news network, there will be a former intelligence official – trying to defend the indefensible, refusing "to use the word 'torture'".
That evidence was "hearsay" and "nonsense," said R. James Woolsey Jr., a former director of central intelligence, who volunteered to defend Dr. Karim and had the security clearances needed to see the evidence.
It's set in 2018, 14 years after Judgment Day, that apocalyptic moment when Skynet, the artificial intelligence system created to defend the United States from attack, became self-aware and launched nuclear bombs to destroy the human race.
Their critics counter that intelligence agencies simply want to defend the principle of secrecy.
When violence flared again recently in eastern Congo, it was caught flat-footed, lacking intelligence and barely able to defend itself, let alone protect civilians.That is supposed to be changing.
WASHINGTON, March 10 - A federal judge ruled on Friday that I. Lewis Libby Jr. was entitled to review a limited amount of information from highly classified intelligence documents in order to defend himself against charges that he lied about his role in disclosing the identity of a C.I.A. operative.
