Sentence examples for damaging intelligence from inspiring English sources

Scaramella believed if they could get inside this network, they would be able to leverage much more damaging intelligence about Italian politicians.

The admission last July by the former F.B.I. agent Robert Philip Hanssen that he had been a spy for Moscow for more than 15 years represented one of the most damaging intelligence breaches ever in America's national security.

A secret investigative team was established to identify the source of a series of damaging intelligence losses, including the tunnel and related activities against the embassy, that could not be explained by Mr. Ames.

Fierce factional infighting within Zanu-PF and the security sector has resulted in a number of damaging intelligence leaks, notably on the Facebook page of a mole known as Baba Jukwa.

A1 Effort to Find a Mole A secret F.B.I.-C.I.A. investigative team established in 1994 to identify the source of damaging intelligence losses played a crucial role in the work that led to the arrest of Robert Philip Hanssen, officials said.

A secret investigative team established in 1994 to identify the source of a series of damaging intelligence losses played a crucial role in the counterespionage probe that led to the arrest on Sunday of an F.B.I. agent, Robert Philip Hanssen, officials said today.

"Or maybe they did know [how harmful it was] but it wasn't that damaging by intelligence community priorities - this was very damaging to Sony but in terms of national security it's not as significant".

"The way in which these disclosures happened has been damaging to the United States and damaging to our intelligence capabilities," Obama said.

In a February hearing on the Hill, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper described Snowden's leaks as "potentially the most massive and most damaging theft of intelligence information in our history". Snowden, he said, had left Americans less safe from terrorists by revealing just how the government tracks their activities and thus helped them figure out how to avoid detection.

The Times publishes an interview with Sir David Omand, No 10's former security adviser, in which he claims Snowden's leaks have been more damaging to Britain's intelligence services than the Cambridge spies during the Cold War.  "It's the most catastrophic loss to British intelligence ever, much worse than [Guy] Burgess and [Donald] MacLean in the 50s," he says.

Although Mr. Ames's treachery was almost certainly the most damaging breach of American intelligence since World War II — Moscow executed several operatives whom he had betrayed — Washington's response was considerably less severe than it would have been in Soviet times.