When intelligence analysts capture information about American citizens through incidental surveillance, the resulting intelligence reports redact the names of those citizens.
If this issue has a theme, it would seem to be about what happens when intelligence and rigor are brought to bear in the pursuit of the aesthetic.
'When intelligence is passed on to us about specific locations and containers, NBC staff are called to examine their contents,' explained Captain Kingsley Donaldson, 31.
For the point about internment is that it fails without intelligence, but it is only used when intelligence has already failed.
The shadow of Iraq, the conflict that Mr Obama scorned as George W. Bush's "dumb war", lies across his decision-making, especially when weighing intelligence about weapons of mass destruction.
Simon Lewis, spokesman for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, did not say when the intelligence about the suspect, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, had been relayed to American intelligence agencies, and he gave no details of what American agencies were told.
The Bush administration argues that when it has intelligence about imminent threats to the United States, it has the right to strike first.
"And we will insist that action be taken — one way or the other — when we have intelligence about high-level terrorist targets".
Even in those final hours, when the signs were unmistakable that a conflict was imminent, Israel was misled by false intelligence about when it would start.
As the campaign against Iraq intensified, a former aide to Cheney told me, the Vice-President's office, run by his chief of staff, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, became increasingly secretive when it came to intelligence about Iraq's W.M.D.s.
