(The message was similar to one delivered earlier in the year by another Microsoft senior vice president, Jim Allchin, who accused the open-source movement of compromising the nation's intellectual property law).
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But within the United States the success of several recent terrorist trials gives the lie to the idea that civilian justice poses unacceptable risks of compromising intelligence sources, endangering judges and jurors, or giving defendants a propaganda forum.
The government is seeking to deport the militants because of doubts it can win convictions against them in Britain, either because it does not have enough evidence to satisfy the courts or, it says, because it cannot present what evidence it has because of the risk of compromising intelligence sources.
In October, when Washington was reluctant to publish its initial evidence that Osama bin Laden was behind the Sept. 11 attacks for fear of compromising intelligence sources, Mr. Blair drew up a white paper accusing Al Qaeda, relying on information gathered by British intelligence services.
The Obama's administration's decision to release Russian threat signatures was a calculated one that undoubtedly weighed the cost of compromising intelligence sources and methods.
In addition, Mr. Hanssen is accused of tipping off Moscow about an espionage investigation of a former American diplomat, Felix Bloch, and of compromising a variety of sensitive F.B.I. sources, documents and surveillance techniques.
"We are disappointed -- it has the effect of compromising our database," he said, adding that Lexis-Nexis expected the loss to be minor among its three billion documents from 30,000 sources.
"The danger of compromising our artistic profiles was paramount".
Mr Kibaki has, so far, shown little sign of compromising.
