Mr. Obama and top administration officials say some leaks put Americans at risk, disrupted intelligence operations and strained alliances.
"Every one of those investments would benefit from a common, underlying infrastructure that scales up into the disrupted intelligence that we think these robotic applications will need in the future," Barrett says.
As for whether the article disrupted intelligence-gathering operations, the New York Times' executive editor Bill Keller offers a robust defence of his decision: The central argument we heard from officials at senior levels was that international bankers would stop cooperating, would resist, if this program saw the light of day.
An investigation would disrupt the intelligence services but less than lengthy court battles, which would fail to stop revelations yet still leave a suspicion that wrongdoing remains hidden.The third step is to be readier to prosecute terrorists for their crimes.
The expulsions, which resulted from an investigation by the national security division of the New York F.B.I. office, appear to be part of a stepped-up effort by the Bush administration to disrupt Iraqi intelligence operations.
At the same time, officials say, a widely perceived need to maintain some competition among intelligence agencies and produce the best analytical judgments, as well as concern about disrupting important intelligence work now under way, might mitigate against a sweeping overhaul.
The Central Intelligence Agency's clandestine New York station was destroyed in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center, seriously disrupting United States intelligence operations while bringing the war on terrorism dangerously close to home for America's spy agency, government officials say.
Founded by Lloyd Tabb, Looker is aiming to disrupt the business intelligence space by turning what used to be programming queries into those based on natural language.
Machines versus lawyers John McGinnis | City Journal | 28 May 2014 Machine intelligence will disrupt law firms as fundamentally as the internet did newspapers.
In an interview with Vanity Fair last year, the F.B.I. director since 2001, Robert S. Mueller III, was asked whether any attacks had been disrupted because of intelligence obtained through the coercive methods.
