Blumenthal's role advising Clinton drew scrutiny earlier this week when the New York Times claimed that he gleaned intelligence on Libya from business dealings in the country.
The Bush administration has resisted temptation to retaliate immediately for the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon as it rallies broader international support for battling terrorism and gleans intelligence on the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden and his allies.
The soldiers found themselves in charge of Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq at a time when the increasing rage of the anti-American insurgency, along with the desperation of American commanders to glean intelligence, magnified the pressures on the unit.
Gregory Choron, for instance, the owner of Merry Go Round Toys, a small retailer in New Rochelle, N.Y., is relying on his ability to glean intelligence quickly about what customers want and then order products for delivery practically the next day.
The lengths of both lock-ons is odd, in that they could have given the Turks the opportunity to glean intelligence about the radar systems of the planes — especially the relatively new and unknown Su-30SM — that would be extremely interesting to not only Turkey, but also Israel and NATO nations.
Diplomatic cables published by the WikiLeaks website showed the United States operated information-gathering desks on Iran in neighboring countries where diplomats would seek to glean intelligence from traveling Iranians.
He has shed light on the theft of dead children's identities, the use of sex to glean intelligence, and the use of false identities in court.
But they made clear that the bureau relied on many thousands of confidential informants, including drug runners, mobsters, professors, foreign diplomats and political defectors, to glean intelligence about crimes and threats to national security.
They have faced claims that they did so to glean intelligence about the activists and the protests they were organising.
In his native Myanmar, where he travels periodically to glean intelligence, he is known by another name.
