"It's much more tailored to what intelligence is telling us and what the threat is telling us, as opposed to stopping all individuals from a particular nationality or all individuals using a particular passport," the administration official said Thursday, speaking on the condition of anonymity in advance of the formal announcement.
"What our intelligence is telling us, we're probably going to see about a 15 to 20 percent increase in the amount of attacks compared to the same time frame of 2009," said Maj. Gen. John F. Campbell, commander of American and allied forces in eastern Afghanistan.
The new system will give us details, or at least as many as possible based on what intelligence is telling us and without giving away the "means and methods" by which the information has been gathered.
Although he handed over a treasure trove of intelligence, Mr. Wang was told he could not be granted asylum.
An analyst in Sussex police's intelligence branch was told: "The focus of the search is mental health/anti-police feeling.
Officials in Washington say that American intelligence recently was told of a threat made by Islamic terrorists against the interests of the United States and at least one other country represented in Rome.
The United States intelligence community was told in 1998 that Arab terrorists were planning to fly a bomb-laden plane into the World Trade Center, but the F.B.I. and the Federal Aviation Administration did not take the threat seriously, a Congressional investigation into the Sept. 11 attacks has found.
In interviews with present and former intelligence officials, I was told that some senior Administration people, soon after coming to power, had bypassed the government's customary procedures for vetting intelligence.
But the court papers, released to The New York Times, do not clearly indicate whether the detective, Glenn Mulcaire, accessed the highly classified intelligence file directly, was told of its contents or was simply noting its existence.
Nonetheless, intelligence officers there never raised the matter with Peruvian security officials because, an intelligence official said, "it was told to us in confidence by the Jordanians".
