It is Israel's policy to insist on anonymity for officers with access to intelligence material.
Contrary to some reports in the media today, I did not decide to sit without a jury so as to consider intelligence material in private.
September 17 2008 Gordon Brown announces a review of intelligence material.
The official said Israeli forces had discovered significant intelligence material, including Hezbollah war plans, maps and communications.
She denied deciding to sit without a jury so she could consider intelligence material in private.
In addition, this sort of intelligence material, from a defector or an intercept, is virtually never used in court.
But the argument over China's true record can be answered only with access to highly sensitive and sometimes ambiguous intelligence material.
But within the Reagan Administration the intelligence material produced a far different reaction.
In protecting their intelligence material they were perceptive and efficient, frighteningly so.
And now you come to me and ask for some very important intelligence material to bolster up the pitiful ruins of a once great Power.