Black ink obscures Colonel Shaffer's descriptions of intelligence operations in Afghanistan, including vague references to N.S.A. communications intercepts.
His exuberant, bullet-drenched prose, with its descriptions of intelligence tradecraft and modern anti-terrorism campaigns, bristles with authenticity.True to form, Cochrane is riven with demons.
For example, the American psychologist Michael E. Cole and other psychologists have argued that cognitive processing does not accommodate the possibility that descriptions of intelligence may differ from one culture to another and across cultural subgroups.
The audience might have been most amazed by her description of collecting intelligence in the Confederate Senate as well as the Confederate White House, and aiding in the capture of rebel officers at Fredericksburg, Va.
The history is not always kind: "Body of Secrets" opens with a description of American intelligence agents at the end of the Second World War desperate to poach Nazi codebreakers who might have been helpful against the looming Soviet threat.
This paper demonstrates that the description of forensic intelligence processes, their architectures, and the methods for building them can, at a certain level, be abstracted from the type of traces considered.
Rehabilitating "retarded" as a neutral description of low intelligence may be a lost cause.
I stand by that description for intelligence officers, at least the better ones, but I don't see that as a description of my writing.
This is followed by a short description of the artificial intelligence techniques used in renewable energy systems modeling, performance prediction, and control.
Taken together, the description of the paucity of intelligence still available to the 138,000 American troops in Iraq and the assessment of how few inroads have been made at reducing the insurgency sounded a very different note from the optimistic-sounding messages that President Bush has been sending all week about the prospects of the new Iraqi government.
