Sentence examples for hard intelligence from inspiring English sources

Is this a tale of hard intelligence being distorted for political advantage?

In the absence of hard intelligence, it is incumbent on the intelligence chief to try to imagine the unimaginable.

They described this assessment as based on hard intelligence, presumably telephone intercepts.

The New Yorkers also lacked hard intelligence about a presidential bid.

Not every line in the document is hard intelligence work, though.

Some of our intelligence evaluators are making the same mistake as last time, interpreting their abysmal lack of hard intelligence as evidence of no nuclear weapons development.

But a senior Bush administration official said that the United States had "rock-hard intelligence" that at least a dozen Qaeda members, including Mr. Adel, had been "directing some operations from Iran".

Another former intelligence official said: "Iran is the hardest intelligence target there is.

"It's the hardest intelligence target we have," one senior American official said, "much harder than Iraq".

He said that Iran was "one of a handful of the hardest intelligence targets going" and the new intelligence had only arrived in the past few months.

Asked Monday to explain how that was possible, Stephen J. Hadley, the national security adviser, said simply: "Iran is one of a handful of the hardest intelligence targets going.