The pieces they had were hardly clear, intelligence officials said.
However, Butler also tells us that "the JIC cautioned that, on Iraq's nuclear programme, we have no clear intelligence".
By 2007, General [David] Petraeus was saying there was crystal clear intelligence of cooperation between Syrian military intelligence and the jihadists.
At Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Watson said the evidence file used to convict Righton "if it still exists, contains clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring".
As the misguided war in Iraq made clear, intelligence analysis is an uncertain game, all too vulnerable to error and politically motivated distortion.
6. (S/NF) Stirrup agreed that "clear intelligence" has demonstrated that U.S. Predator drone strikes in Waziristan have had an impact on terror networks.
The way to defeat international terrorism, is through international co-operation, based on international law, clear intelligence and a measured and appropriate military response.
"The leads were not followed up, but if the files still exist, I want to ensure that the Metropolitan Police secure the evidence, re-examine it, and investigate clear intelligence suggesting a powerful paedophile network linked to Parliament and No 10".
In October last year, Tom Watson MP told Parliament that an evidence file on Peter Righton, a former child care worker convicted of importing illegal homosexual pornography in 1992, contained "clear intelligence of a widespread paedophile ring".
"Where we can make a clear intelligence linkage between a narcotics dealer or a facility and the insurgency, I consider that a force protection issue, and we can deal with that in a military way".
