The phrase "a potential intelligence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the possibility or capability of an intelligence, whether human, artificial, or otherwise.
Example: "In the field of artificial intelligence, researchers are exploring a potential intelligence that could surpass human cognitive abilities."
Alternatives: "an emerging intelligence" or "a possible intelligence".
The capture marks a potential intelligence boon for American officials in their hunt for Mr. bin Laden and their quest to thwart future terrorist activities.
His capture this month was seen as a potential intelligence coup because he had been on the run for years and so would, presumably, possess information about Al Qaeda from its earliest days through its contemporary, more scattered state.
Silverman had talked at length with Salahuddin and, in a 2002 piece for the New Yorker magazine, portrayed him as a potential intelligence source if the US could coax him out of Iran.
Mr. Ruqai's capture was seen as a potential intelligence coup for the United States, given that his relationship with Al Qaeda dates to its early days under bin Laden in the 1990s; he is also believed to have information about the group as it exists today.
A fuller story of his life, encompassing Mr. Ghailani's childhood in Zanzibar and his association with Al Qaeda after the attacks, offers insight into how he became a trusted aide to Mr. bin Laden, and why American authorities saw him as a potential intelligence asset after his arrest in 2004.
The fugitive, known as Abu Anas al-Libi, is seen as a potential intelligence gold mine, possessing perhaps two decades of information about Al Qaeda, from its early days under Osama bin Laden in Sudan to its more scattered elements today.
The FBI has since seized Clinton's server and is investigating any potential intelligence breach.
More than 1,700 pages of her emails contained classified information, and the FBI has since seized her server and is reviewing any potential intelligence breach. .
Yet a famed Senate investigative committee of the 1970s, the so-called Church Committee, on which my old friend and boss Senator Gary Hart served before becoming a founding member of the oversight committee Feinstein now chairs, offers a model for wide-ranging inquiry into potential intelligence abuses, as well as some cautionaries.
It enabled the agency to identify potential intelligence sources among student leaders in other countries.
Not because they were ever thought to have done anything, but because by their racial and demographic profile they were judged to have some potential "intelligence value".
