Given intelligence that the militia had been stockpiling weapons at Concord, Massachusetts, he ordered a troop of regulars to march there on the night of 18 April to confiscate them.
Australia's domestic intelligence agency failed to notify the intelligence watchdog of a controversial "special intelligence operation" for 10 days in what is the first official confirmation of highly secretive missions that give intelligence officers immunity from prosecution.
Other countries are considering proposals that give intelligence and law enforcement agencies new powers to conduct surveillance, break into buildings or hack into computers to get encryption keys and obtain information.
Asked by reporters how American officials could be sure of ousting Mr. Hussein, given intelligence reports that he uses several doubles to confuse possible assassins, Mr. Rumsfeld said the administration's goal was to ensure that the Iraqi leader was no longer was in power.
As national security adviser, Mr. Poindexter was involved with a Reagan administration initiative in 1984 that gave intelligence agencies broad authority to examine computer databases for "sensitive but unclassified information".
President Vladimir V. Putin said Friday that Russia gave intelligence reports to the Bush administration suggesting that Saddam Hussein's government was preparing terrorist attacks in the United States or against American targets overseas.
A former high-ranking federal agent pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to drug trafficking charges that included accusations that he gave intelligence to Mexican cartel members.
But a new report from some of the world's leading computing experts argues that giving intelligence agencies access "will open doors through which criminals and malicious nation states can attack the very individuals law enforcement seeks to defend".
Perhaps the meaning in the Sistine Chapel is not of God giving intelligence to Adam, but rather that intelligence and observation -- and the bodily organ that makes them possible -- lead, without the necessity of Church, directly to God.
Over a period of months, the United States had given the Philippines intelligence that should have led to the arrest of suspected terrorists, including the leader of Abu Sayyaf, and the Philippine government did not act, one Western diplomat said.
