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They allow for the protection of sensitive sources, and methods of intelligence gathering.
Commanders remained comfortable with long-established methods of intelligence collection through scouts, spies, prisoners, and deserters.
Still, classified information often involves "sources and methods" of intelligence gathering, and details about the interrogations of the detainees are likely to be kept from the public.
For individual orders that refer specifically to sources and methods of intelligence gathering, secrecy is a necessary evil that is completely understandable.
We and the Americans have long-established methods of intelligence co-operation, which are now even more important than they were in the Cold War.
What remains seems to be a less centralized enemy, one that we are now able to declare can be handled by methods of intelligence that have been used against far more recognizable – and far more lethal – enemies.
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They allow for the protection of sensitive sources and methods of intelligence-gathering; for the safety and security of participants; and for the presentation of evidence gathered from the battlefield that cannot be effectively presented in federal courts.
Perhaps Hannigan should pay heed to one of his predecessors, Sir David Omand, who has written: "Democratic legitimacy demands that where new methods of intelligence-gathering and use are to be introduced, they should be on a firm legal basis and rest on parliamentary and public understanding of what is involved".
Lutz said "seemingly innocuous details" such as dates or how much money the CIA spent "on a particular program" can't be released because they "could reveal broader intelligence priorities and the source and methods of certain intelligence collection when juxtaposed with other publicly available data".
[The] intelligence community in the United States and any intelligence agency is much more analogous to a factory that creates … methods of gathering intelligence.
Few were more disturbing than leaks that jeopardized our sources and methods of gathering intelligence or even the conduct of military operations.
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