B'tselem had asked the army about the case, and unexpectedly received the military's file of its internal investigation through an unusual - and apparently inadvertent - disclosure.

This was not the first such episode of inadvertent disclosure in the case, as Judge Ruckriegle appeared to acknowledge.

After the inadvertent disclosure of the internal email, Merren told the press that Hanna "did not say he would pull his ad dollars."

(The transcript of this meeting was declassified in 2007 due to an inadvertent disclosure.)

"The inadvertent disclosure of such information in a set-piece gulf war could cost a lot of lives because of missile warfare and the high-tech weapons involved."

See Page 16: "Dispose of documents containing the Company's confidential or proprietary information with care so as to avoid inadvertent disclosure."

This may encompass taking precautionary measures to prevent inadvertent disclosure of sensitive information.

He described them as "inadvertent disclosures that came to me as a result of some negligence on the part of the Democrats' technology staff."

Such a system implicitly assumes that the risk of inadvertent disclosure outweighs the benefits of wider sharing.

Such inadvertent disclosures were rare, but did occur.