Sentence examples for accuracy of the intelligence from inspiring English sources

Also, the Americans' preference for airstrikes instead of riskier ground operations has cut off a way of checking the accuracy of the intelligence.

Top American scientists have questioned the accuracy of the intelligence community's assessments of the tests, and its portrayal of the North's nuclear engineers as bumbling amateurs.

There has been dispute within the administration over the accuracy of the intelligence in the report, and F.B.I. officials have said that it appears to overstate the scope and significance of their counterterrorism efforts before Sept. 11.

True, but they focused on only one part of the story - the accuracy of the intelligence on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction and the way Downing Street used it.

The national estimate has been an early focus of attention for a small team of retired C.I.A. analysts who have been brought in by the agency's director, George Tenet, to assess the accuracy of the intelligence reports produced before the war, according to officials familiar with the review.

He had the air of Galileo addressing a college of cardinals, although in Mr Blair's case it was he, not his inquisitors, whose conviction seemed to be based more on faith than on evidence.Even the most stalwart supporters of the war now part company with Mr Blair when he insists on the accuracy of the intelligence material that confirmed his belief in the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.

While I have some doubts about the accuracy of this intelligence, it would be irresponsible of me to come to the Festival in such circumstances; irresponsible to my family, to the festival audience, and to my fellow writers.

"While I have some doubts about the accuracy of this intelligence, it would be irresponsible of me to come to the festival in such circumstances; irresponsible to my family, to the festival audience, and to my fellow writers," he said in the statement.

"While I have some doubts as to the accuracy of this intelligence," he added, "it would be irresponsible of me to come to the festival in such circumstances".

It has been said of him that, "he more than anybody was responsible for the life-saving accuracy of the D-Day intelligence" (reported in Warnock 1963: 9).

A report by the Afghanistan Analysts Network challenges the accuracy of American intelligence used in what are known as targeted killings, and makes a case study of the killing of an alleged Qaeda-affiliated operative in Takhar Province who was attacked by NATO jets as he traveled in a convoy through a rural area.