That inquiry fudged the issue of Blair's intent and his responsibility for overstating the certainty of intelligence.
So by what measure can we claim to be successful so far?" Today's warning was the clearest sign yet of the near certainty in intelligence circles that the audiotaped message broadcast earlier this week, praising terror attacks in Bali and Kuwait, was an authentic recording by Mr. bin Laden.
And so he wants to make sure that we go through a rigorous checklist: The infeasibility of capture, the certainty of the intelligence base, the imminence of the threat, all of these things".
The Times quoted John Brennan, then a senior Presidential adviser and now our newly confirmed director of Central Intelligence, as explaining that the suspects went through a checklist that included "the infeasibility of capture, the certainty of the intelligence base, the imminence of the threat, all of these things".
Even so, it appears that questions about the certainty of the intelligence arose in the planning stages of the mission, because suggestions about calling in airstrikes on the compounds were rejected in favor of sending in Special Forces who could scout the area, Mr. Rumsfeld said.
U.S. intelligence certainty about the hacks and the credibility of its analysis will be critical in the coming weeks as President-elect Donald Trump seeks to downplay any Russian interference in the U.S. presidential campaign.
Even as Russian responsibility for the hacks has been established with high degrees of certainty by several U.S. intelligence agencies, as well as by numerous private cybersecurity firms, the question of motive remains less clear.
Chilcot concluded that Blair presented the assessments of the spy agencies to parliament with a "certainty" not justified by available intelligence.
In one of the most damning sections, the report concludes that Tony Blair presented the assessments of the spy agencies to parliament with a "certainty" not justified by the intelligence that had been gathered.
Measuring the overall effectiveness of EITs is challenging for a number of reasons including: (1) the Agency cannot determine with any certainty the totality of the intelligence the detainee actually possesses; (2) each detainee has different fears of and tolerance foe EITs; (3) the application of the same EITs by different interrogators may have different results; and [REDACTED].
The intelligence community must have certainty that the evidence is concrete to support the conclusion.
