Sentence examples for a direct intelligence from inspiring English sources

The White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, said he could not comment on the arrest of a suspected US spy because it did not want to interfere in "a pending German law enforcement investigation" and because "it obviously goes to, purportedly, a direct intelligence matter as relates to the United States".

The Met police chief said that despite the elevation in the government's official threat level to "severe" in August this year, there was at present no direct intelligence indicating a planned attack in the near future.

She was responding to an article in The New York Times on Thursday in which a former senior C.I.A. official said the Bush White House sought to direct intelligence officials to collect sensitive information on the critic, Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor and Middle East expert.

Obama appointed him director of the CIA in 2009—a move that surprised some, as Panetta had no direct intelligence background.

contractors who lacked required clearances by mid-2005 the interface was firmly established: the ROCs were being provided with information by the military and the NROC was able to disseminate useful intelligence products to the PMSC community and a growing number of military organizations that had no direct intelligence access themselves.

A former congressman and top aide to President Clinton, Panetta has no direct intelligence experience.

In several documents, including one pertaining to security and intelligence agency policy, agencies observe that the "majority" of the data amassed in these databases contains "personal data about a wide range of individuals, the majority of whom are not of direct intelligence interest".

Mr. Tenet offered an aggressive defense, insisting that the agency had provided "clear and direct" intelligence about the larger danger posed by Al Qaeda before Sept. 11.

"We have direct intelligence that tells us that".

Unelected clerical leaders ought not to have arbitrary power to arrest and punish their critics, overrule Parliament and direct intelligence agencies to organize assassinations abroad.

In the letter, the lawmakers, led by Representative Jane Harman of California, the panel's top Democrat, urged that Mr. Bush direct intelligence agencies "to scrub immediately" their estimates of illicit weapons programs around the world.