Sentence examples for a failure of intelligence from inspiring English sources

This was not a failure of intelligence.

"Some ask if there was a failure of intelligence that could have prevented the atrocity.

"It wasn't just a failure of intelligence -- it was a failure of imagination".

The failure to prevent Sept. 11 was not a failure of intelligence or coordination.

We have here what we used to call a fail-int, that is, a failure of intelligence.

The Met blames a failure of intelligence for its delay in getting larger numbers of officers on to the streets.

Barack Obama pointed out that it was not a failure of intelligence-gathering that allowed Mr Abdulmutallab to board the plane: America had possessed "sufficient information" to uncover the plot but "failed to connect those dots".

It was, he says, a failure of Ukrainian intelligence gathering and deliberate Russian misinformation.

Americans responded to the attack on Pearl Harbor with anger, sorrow, and the recognition that the enemy's success represented a failure of American intelligence.

With fifty euros at the back of his mind, he would have considered it a failure of his intelligence had he allowed himself to reveal that the miracle once claimed for the statue at Pouldearg was without foundation.

Others say the split is itself a reflection of a basic failure of intelligence gathering: "We know very well that there are links between terrorism and organised crime.