Maurice Sonnenberg is a senior American intelligence and financial advisor.

But senior federal intelligence and law enforcement officials also described the intelligence as important.

Lashkar e-Toyba is believed to have established a recruitment and fund-raising foothold in Europe in the past few years, senior intelligence and counterterrorism officials said.

"His confidence was strong indeed," said the very old senior intelligence person.

Similarly, Berger recalled that to go to war, a president needs to be able to say that his senior intelligence and law enforcement officers have concluded who is responsible.

Leballo himself relocated to Zimbabwe in late 1980 along with senior intelligence and air force personnel from the MR faction.

A variety of senior intelligence and military officials have discussed the findings in the past few days, but always on condition of anonymity.

"Nothing that was done was not explicitly authorized," a former senior intelligence said.

A better reason is that with so many committees exercising oversight, our senior intelligence and national security officials spend too much of their time testifying.

In 2004, the invitation list was again further expanded to include participating countries' most senior intelligence and the police and national security officials of some countries.