To bolster the intelligence gathering, the administration is weighing whether to shift resources, including analysts and linguists, from the search for unconventional weapons to the counterinsurgency effort.
On Friday, while renewing its vow not to join in ground combat in Mali, Britain said it had deployed a military spy plane to the region to bolster French intelligence gathering.
Counterterrorism officials say they have already taken strong steps to bolster their intelligence and analysis abilities, including the hiring and training of more agents, analysts and linguists, as well as the opening of a joint terrorism center run out of the C.I.A.
Unless of course you're making it your business to try to bolster government intelligence efforts.
His supporters say he bolstered the intelligence agencies' morale after 9/11 and provided stability and continuity.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Cheney became the administration's most muscular advocate for bolstering domestic intelligence gathering and ousting Saddam Hussein, along the way marginalizing Attorney General John Ashcroft and Mr. Powell.
Indonesia is bolstering its intelligence capabilities in the wake of the phone tapping revelations, as the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, awaits a reply from Jakarta after sending a letter to the Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, on Sunday.
Here are the headlines: Indonesia is bolstering its intelligence capabilities in the wake of the phone tapping revelations, as the Australian prime minister, Tony Abbott, awaits a reply from Jakarta after sending a letter to the Indonesian president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, on Sunday, reports Oliver Laughland.
Its funds bolstered artificial intelligence research in the 1980s, and embedded software in the 1990s.
Yesterday Chancellor George Osborne named the tech sector as a priority area, setting out a plan to boost related government spending over the next five years — with the aim of bolstering domestic intelligence capabilities and defending U.K. critical infrastructure and ecommerce activity from hackers.
