"Why do we give intelligence to the terrorists in their jail cells, instead of getting intelligence on the terrorists that puts them in jail cells?" "Our intelligence agencies are dumb".
Mr. Cook said that his experience convinced him that "instead of using intelligence as evidence on which to base a decision about policy, we used intelligence as the basis on which to justify a policy on which we had already settled".
Ms. Short said that Mr. Blair had "duped" the country, while Mr. Cook said, "Instead of using intelligence as evidence on which to base a decision about policy, we used intelligence as the basis on which to justify a policy on which we had already settled".
"Instead of using intelligence as evidence on which to base a decision about policy, we used intelligence as the basis on which to justify a policy on which we had already settled," said Robin Cook, a British minister who resigned from the cabinet over the war.
In late March, the new Egyptian foreign minister, Nabil el-Araby, invited a delegation from Hamas to Cairo to meet at the Foreign Ministry instead of the intelligence headquarters or a hotel meeting room — effectively upgrading them from militants to diplomats, some later said.
And let's redouble our efforts to fight bad policy which seeks to entrench a failed ideology of mass surveillance — instead of focusing intelligence resources where they are really needed; honing in on signals, not drowned out by noise.
So once again the UK government is seeking to sanction mass surveillance of citizens as a standard modus operandi for state agents, instead of requiring intelligence and law enforcement focus on targeted surveillance.
Last night, the Internet decided to focus on the sound of a Jeopardy contestant's voice, instead of her intelligence.
