Sentence examples for bureaucratic intelligence from inspiring English sources

Her family is in jeopardy, and Jack Bauer, no longer on the federal payroll, is going double rogue to save innocent lives and further reveal the incompetence of bureaucratic intelligence.

The 47-year-old agent said she wrote her famous memorandum to the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Mueller III, outlining her views on the bureaucratic and intelligence failures that hindered the agency's antiterrorism efforts, after "a fairly sleepless three-day period".

In the end, the bureaucratic structure of intelligence will matter less than success at gathering information.

But the panel said the effort was stymied by bureaucratic miscommunications, diplomatic failures, intelligence lapses and policy miscalculations.

Data on an applicant are sent from the American consulate in the applicant's country to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and "other agencies"—a bureaucratic euphemism for the intelligence agencies.

But even with the new authority, proposed Pentagon missions were sometimes scrubbed because of bad intelligence or bureaucratic entanglements, senior administration officials said.

The Post series was the source of a number of questions from senators about how Mr. Clapper would address bureaucratic redundancies in the intelligence world and wean agencies off their reliance on contractors.

These jobs, he said, helped him understand the bureaucratic mazes where information and intelligence are often stashed.

I hope for all our sakes that underneath their polish, intelligence and obvious bureaucratic capabilities, leaders of our military are cut from the same cloth as the cunning risk-takers like Patton and MacArthur whom this country has turned to in the past to win its wars.

Endless rules smother public servants' innovation and intelligence, turning them into bureaucratic windup toys.

So it wasn't bureaucratic turf wars that caused the intelligence to fall through the cracks this time.