The phrase "a useful intelligence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a type of intelligence or information that is beneficial or helpful in a particular context.
Example: "The report provided a useful intelligence that helped the team make informed decisions."
Alternatives: "valuable insight" or "beneficial information".
I would argue that the ability to move through the world and do meaningful, unsupervised using both insight and experience is the real definition of a useful intelligence and this can happen online or in meatspace.
Six months ago, a reporter asked him by encrypted e-mail why Americans would want the NSA to give up bulk data collection if that would limit a useful intelligence tool.
Because of this, social media is a useful intelligence and surveillance tool.
The Senate report is sceptical whether any useful intelligence was gained thereby.
The Senate intelligence committee concluded the torture techniques did not produce any useful intelligence; the CIA's official position as of 2014 is that the question is unanswerable.
WASHINGTON — One of the nation's biggest domestic counterterrorism programs has failed to provide virtually any useful intelligence, according to Congressional investigators.
The inspector issued a report in 2004 that criticized how some of the techniques were used, but also concluded the interrogation program as a whole produced useful intelligence.
Had he been captured and questioned, he could have been a mine of useful intelligence.
The Pentagon is also hoping that information from Taliban and Al Qaeda prisoners will help track down Mr. bin Laden and his top lieutenants, although those interviews have not provided a bonanza of useful intelligence, American officials said.
B3 INSIDER INFORMATION -- John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old American who was captured with Taliban soldiers in northern Afghanistan could provide a bounty of useful intelligence about the recruiting methods, hideouts, supply routes and lower-level command structure of the Taliban military, senior Pentagon officials say.
John Walker Lindh, the 20-year-old American who was captured with Taliban soldiers in northern Afghanistan, could provide a bounty of useful intelligence about the recruiting methods, hide-outs, supply routes and lower-level command structure of the Taliban military, senior Pentagon officials said today.
