However, he warned that governments might feel the need to publish intelligence to buttress support for any action against Iran.
In 1998 the South African truth and reconciliation commission published intelligence documents suggesting that a bomb had been placed on board.
When a magazine published intelligence files from the defence ministry linking certain generals to drugs-traffickers, the defence minister did not sack the generals; he court-martialled the lower-ranking officers believed to have leaked the files.
Hilton Tims, 81, had claimed that his paper, the Surrey Comet, was issued with a D notice – an official warning not to publish intelligence that might damage national security – when he sought to report on a police investigation into Elm Guest House in 1984.
Kirkpatrick Sale and his book Human Scale, Paul Goodman and his 1960's bookCommunitas, are among the critical voices that led me to publish Collective Intelligence: Creating a Prosperous World at Peace (edited by Mark Tovey with 55 contributors), and to write and publish Intelligence for Earth: Clarity, Diversity, Integrity, & Sustainability; as with all my books, the latter two are free online.
In July, WikiLeaks defied the Obama Administration by publishing seventy-six thousand intelligence and military field reports from the Afghan war.
* Analysts who make sense of documents and conversations obtained by foreign and domestic spying share their judgment by publishing 50,000 intelligence reports each year — a volume so large that many are routinely ignored.
They insisted on originally publishing the intelligence information; they insisted on Dr Kelly appearing before the select committee; and - perhaps their biggest mistake - on declaring war on the BBC.
In order to help explain its change of policy, Downing Street had previously considered publishing an intelligence dossier detailing the menace from Iraq's chemical-, biologicand, anuclear-weaponsons programs, but nothing had appeared.
Clegg said that the government would this morning be publishing the intelligence case saying Assad was responsible for last week's chemical weapons attack near Damascus and the government's legal advice justifying intervention.
