Sentence examples for dodgy intelligence from inspiring English sources

Yet, from warrantless wiretapping and torture to dodgy intelligence in Iraq, he knew the full extent of those excesses because of unauthorized disclosures to the press.

With frequent reference to the specious political arguments and dodgy intelligence wielded by Tony Blair in the run-up to the 2003 invasion, and to the calamity it produced, Britain's parliamentarians suggested Syria was too similar a case.

In the case of the US, it's a road that has already led to thousands of deaths, including those of many civilians, as dodgy intelligence and "signature strikes" have killed and maimed huge numbers of innocents along with targeted fighters.

The one thing it might have been assumed that Cameron would avoid is an echo of the dodgy intelligence in the run-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

Despite the fog of distorted propaganda, skewed legal advice and dodgy intelligence, the two million London marchers, and presumably many other millions, were able to judge correctly, yet our paid representatives, other than Robin Cook, John Denham and a few others, couldn't.

I ruled that the late Ministry of Defence scientist who was the source for reports on the "dodgy dossier" of intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction committed suicide.

It also means fudging statistics and cherry-picking research as has happened in the Home Office; it means manufacturing dodgy dossiers on intelligence as happened in the run-up to the Iraq war.

Cameron's reliance on the notion of 70,000 potential ground forces ready to follow up airstrikes was rubbished as a "bogus battalion" equivalent to the notorious "dodgy dossier" of intelligence that made the 2003 case for war in Iraq.

But one thing is clear: there will not be any more dodgy dossiers or politicised intelligence, even behind closed doors.

They remember the old dodgy dossiers signed off by intelligence chiefs, weapons of mass deception.

But I am convinced its content is as vacuous as the "dodgy dossier", the cooked-up intelligence that took us into Iraq.