Sentence examples for Sketchy intelligence from inspiring English sources

Sketchy intelligence reports already pointed at a culprit, Osama bin Laden, an exiled Saudi millionaire living in Afghanistan who had declared a terrorist war on the United States.

Also, before the war, CIA Director George Tenet warned the White House not to use sketchy intelligence about Iraqi purchases of uranium in Africa.

It's a strangely risk-averse tact, given the fact that he took two of the boldest risks in history — jumping into the presidential race in the first place and giving the kill order on Bin Laden on sketchy intelligence.

But this wide-ranging strategy — relying on often unreliable allies, sometimes sketchy intelligence and a clandestine American force already strained by a decade of secretive wars — has its limitations, American officials have said in recent days.

The officials have defended many of their prewar statements as having been based on the intelligence that was available at the time — although there is now evidence that some statements contradicted even the sketchy intelligence of the time.

But they were also influenced by a remarkable period of turmoil inside North Korea, including an economic crisis set off by the government's failed effort to revalue the currency and sketchy intelligence suggesting that the North's military might not abide the rise of Mr. Kim's son Kim Jong-un, who was recently made a four-star general despite having no military experience.

Details were sketchy, but intelligence suggested that the Boeing 777-200, carrying two hundred and ninety-eight people, had been hit by a surface-to-air missile.

Superficially, the sides are merely returning to the terms established after the horrific war of 2014, and, indeed, the deal comes after two days of bloody exchanges, kicked off by a sketchy Israeli intelligence operation gone awry an operation that left a senior Hamas commander, six Hamas fighters, and an Israeli lieutenant colonel dead.

What has been less visible, however, is what many officials describe as a continuing shortage of information about many detainees, including some who have been held on sketchy or disputed intelligence.

Other American officials described the intelligence reports as sketchy and said it would be unfair to criticize the Thai military on the basis of such fragmentary evidence.

They cite Afghan and Pakistani intelligence reports, mostly sketchy, that have spoken of Mr. bin Laden and an entourage of several dozen moving more than once since the American bombing of the Tora Bora mountains late last year.