Sentence examples for Imprecise intelligence from inspiring English sources

Our knowledge of the Iraqi nuclear weapons program is based largely — perhaps 90% — on analysis of imprecise intelligence".

He palled around with the ladies of "The View" and twisted his fingers as Colbert gave him a thorough grilling, quoting from a 2002 memo from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, which warned that the case for Saddam Hussein's weapons program was based on "imprecise intelligence".

In the case of both the Sept. 11 attacks and Iraq's illicit weapons, the White House has portrayed President Bush and his top advisers as consumers of imprecise intelligence, making the best decisions they could in a murky world of secret plots and illicit programs.

During the opening weeks of the bombing campaign, Pentagon officials described intelligence supplied by opposition groups as imprecise and unreliable, a criticism answered by Northern Alliance commanders with a critique of their own: The American targeting strategy was baffling, they said, doing little to assist an advance toward the crossroads of Mazar-i-Sharif or Kabul.

(It's important to note that PitchBook data, and the work of other market intelligence firms, is somewhat fuzzy and imprecise).

Though proving to be a potent threat to the group's leaders, intelligence surrounding air strikes has often been imprecise.

Maybe, but measuring intelligence even on living animals is an imprecise matter in its own right; measuring the intelligence of extinct animals from fragmentary bones is mostly fantasy, but probably close to the truth.

The assessment of threats, the effort by government analysts to forecast the behavior of unseen enemies, even unknown ones, is at best an imprecise art that depends largely on the quality of the intelligence from which it is drawn.

"The recent disclosure that F.B.I. field agents were blocked from pursuing an investigation of Zacarias Moussaoui because officials in Washington did not believe there was sufficient evidence of criminal activity to support a warrant points out how one person's judgment in applying an imprecise test may result in the costly loss of critical intelligence," Mr. Cohen said.

The problem is that the imprecise rules governing insider trading are an ineffective means to regulate how political intelligence firms gather, analyze and selectively disseminate such information to their clients.

What has or, rather, hasn't been found in Iraq since the war ended (see article) has called into question not only the integrity of the intelligence that informed these claims, but also that of the governments that made them.Intelligence is an imprecise business.