Moreover, it appears likely that certain charges could not be presented in a civilian court because the proof that would have to be offered could, if publicly disclosed, compromise sources and methods of intelligence gathering.
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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.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Decision Brief No. 05-D 43 2005-08-29
Military commission trials have been used in most American wars, and their rules and procedures are designed around the need to protect intelligence sources and methods from revelation in open court.
Sensitive Compartmented Information is information that not only is classified for national security reasons as Top Secret, Secret, or Confidential, but also is subject to special access and handling requirements because it involves or derives from particularly sensitive intelligence sources and methods.
Some of the inquiry will be held in secret to protect intelligence sources and methods.
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Eliminates the Intelligence Community veto of declassification decisions made by the Interagency Security Classification Appeals Panel (ISCAP) regarding intelligence sources and methods.
Identifies with greater specificity information that can be exempted from automatic declassification because it relates to intelligence sources and methods or military war plans.
However, sources told the Wall Street Journal that the United States also likely would have withheld such details for fear of divulging intelligence sources and methods.
But experts say that's not necessarily unusual, given the need to protect what the intelligence community describes as sensitive sources and methods.
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The intelligence officials were concerned that full disclosure would set a precedent for future exposure of the agency's sources and methods, and would threaten America's relationship with allied intelligence services.
The CIA and the FBI have promised Congress they will send the new department their "finished" intelligence reports, but they resist divulging raw data and sensitive sources and methods.
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