He was shown a photograph of Abu Munthir, and told that he too was in detention.The secret interrogation policy that MI5 and MI6 officers were instructed to follow during such operations was disclosed by the Guardian last month.
"At no time were any intelligence sources or methods discussed and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly," McMaster said in a statement.
And no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly".
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster, however, said he was at the meeting and "at no time were intelligence sources or methods discussed, and no military operations were disclosed that were not already known publicly".
Operation Condor was disclosed in 1991 by a Chilean commission that documented the disappearances of more than 3,000 Chileans but did not name the officers responsible.
The existence of a clandestine paramilitary network code-named "Operation Gladio" was disclosed last Thursday by Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti in a speech to his nation's Senate.
And this year, Dragados was forced to remove James Roemer, a senior project manager with oversight of payroll on the East Side job — a critical position given that labor costs account for 80 percent of the $1.1 billion operation — when it was disclosed that Mr. Roemer had served time in prison for fraud and tax evasion after inflating the payroll of an M.T.A. project in 2003.
The issue is a particularly sensitive one in Denver, where the police agreed last year to restrictions on local intelligence-gathering operations after it was disclosed that the police had kept files on some 3,000 people and 200 groups involved in protests.
The imminent offensive was first announced in a press release from the Pentagon on Monday, and, unusually, the name of the campaign was disclosed: Operation Moshtarak, which means Joint Operation in Dari.
Aug. 20, 7 26 p.m.: This post has been updated with details from senior official about operation, NSC explaining why it was disclosed.
