Sentence examples for as one intelligence from inspiring English sources
But the public demands results, as one intelligence chief pointed out.
They saw, as one intelligence official put it a year ago, "a concerted effort by bin Laden and his people to expand their activities" in Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, and began mobilizing against it.
It was unclear why it could not have been made public years ago — especially since, as one intelligence official said recently, "terrorists have thought for years we collect this stuff".
"Intelligence is grains of sand; you don't usually get the whole beach," says one veteran.It is true that in 2001, a time when the CIA and other agencies were woefully ignorant of al-Qaeda's methods, the prisoners captured after the overthrow of the Taliban were the first rich source of information to help "map the enemy", as one intelligence source puts it.
From his statement to supporters: "The Giannoulias provided story inaccurately portrays then-LCDR Kirk as just one intelligence officer attached to one Navy squadron.
There is a debate going on inside the Administration about American and Israeli intelligence that suggests that the Shiite-dominated Iranian government may be actively aiding the Sunni-led insurgency in Iraq — "pulling the strings on the puppet," as one former intelligence official put it.
As the standoff continued, one intelligence report noted that inside the Libyan embassy in London "most of the people appear to have been concerned with packing and making other arrangements to leave, such as the acquisition of consumer goods".
One intelligence officer described him as "one third genius, one third blackguard, and one third lunatic", which seems about right.
As it turned out, there was only one intelligence agent available, and he was new.
"One intelligence service comes off as highly professional and competent," he told me.
The government's goal is not just to collect all of our phone records, but, as one former intelligence official admitted, to "collect it all".
