But Fingar, in defending his report, says the intelligence community provides a level of analysis not found in other agencies, and he said whether the report was based on open or secret sources was irrelevant.
Yesterday in opening arguments, the U.S. said Rajaratnam used an illegal network of secret sources to earn millions of dollars in illicit profits, while his defense claimed he made decisions based only on public information.
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Today, local artist Souad Attabi makes no secret of the sources for her abstract paintings depicting Berber talismans, hung at the Bab Sebaa Gallery.
Some of the inquiry will be held in secret to protect intelligence sources and methods.
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Effective immediately, the new standards require detailed briefings before each trip that will include safety precautions and any necessary designations of establishments and areas that are "off limits" for Secret Service personnel, the sources said.
Congressional investigators want to determine whether the White House used sources other than the Secret Service list as a basis for its requests for the background files.
In recent years criticism of banking secrecy has centred on the risk of money laundering, the practice of disguising funds from illegal sources by passing them through secret accounts until their origins can no longer be traced.
There are long-standing rules governing the disclosure of secret evidence because of the risk of compromising sources or revealing how information is gathered.
Sources familiar with the position of the Secret Service in the dispute tell CNN that Director Lewis Merletti told Starr and other independent counsel staffers, in a February briefing, that should his agents be denied the privilege, "we will lose a president of the United States to assassination" and that trust and confidence between the protective service and its protectees will be lost.
In an earlier interview, former CIA analyst Michael Scheuer said the Italian military secret service had approved the operation involving Hassan, and CIA sources who refused to be named told CNN in 2005 that the agency had briefed and sought approval from its Italian counterpart for such an abduction.
Similarly, U.S. government sources said there was a dispute between at least one Secret Service member and a woman brought back to his hotel over a request to be paid.
Jaradat, from a village near Hebron in the West Bank, was held for interrogation Monday by the Israeli secret service based on intelligence gathered by village residents, Israeli security sources said.
The case principally concerns former Chancellor Helmut Kohl's secret slush funds, which were funded by as-yet-undisclosed sources.
Sources with knowledge of the investigation have told CNN that the Secret Service agent at the center of the scandal is Arthur Huntington.
It even said the Spanish secret police were investigating, and pointed to the Financial Times and Economist as sources of reckless comment.
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Sources in Kabul say he and his envoys have been involved in secret talks with the Afghan president in Kabul, his representatives in southern Afghanistan and outside the country.
Sources familiar with the investigation tell CNN the independent counsel wants to call members of the Secret Service before the grand jury to answer questions about Lewinsky's visits to the West Wing of the White House and the Oval Office.
Mr. al-Arian got Candidate Bush to promise to prohibit the use of secret evidence, a practice law enforcement uses sparingly in deportation and criminal proceedings in order to protect intelligence sources and methods.
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Called Enhanced Standards of Conduct, the new guidelines given to all Secret Service personnel make clear that standards of behavior required in the United States apply on missions abroad, the sources said.
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