"When senior administration officials raised national 
    security questions about details in Dana's story during 
    her reporting, at their request we met with them on more 
    than one occasion," Downie says. "The meetings were off 
    the record for the purpose of discussing national 
    security issues in her story." At least one of the 
    meetings involved John Negroponte, the director of 
    national intelligence, and CIA Director Porter Goss, the 
    sources said.