ABC News has also learned that the New York City Police Department, working with the FBI, U.S. marshals and intelligence agencies assisting, is preparing a detailed security package for the next three years. That security package is believed to be one of the elements Holder is in New York to discuss.
Other elements of trial preparation underway include determining how to secure and make available to the defense classified information, design a prosecution that does not include evidence tainted by torture and details right down to the size of the courtroom and overflow rooms that may be needed to accommodate the expected intense public interest in the case.
Elements of the security plan are already in effect, and it is expected to draw heavily from the resources of the counter terrorism and intelligence divisions that the NYPD beefed up after the 9/11 attacks, committing more than 1,000 officers and analysts to the effort. The security plans also contains details like sniper teams, heavy weapons deployments, barricades, traffic diversions and the use of undercover officers and surveillance measures.
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