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He has raised acutely disturbing questions about the oversight of intelligence; about the use of closed courts; about the cosy and secret relationship between government and vast corporations; and about the extent to which millions of citizens now routinely have their communications intercepted, collected, analysed and stored.
Secretary of State John F. Kerry, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, faced mostly skeptical questions about their confidence in the intelligence about the use of chemical weapons, the nature of the Syrian opposition and the consequences of a strike.
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8.58pm BST Guardian Washington correspondent Paul Lewis notes that Carney said the White House would release a US intelligence assessment about the use of chemical weapons "in the coming days": Carney added that while the president is still considering the appropriate response, he had already concluded that the use if weapons constituted a "horrific violation of an international norm".
But the first intelligence about the torpedo and its use on nuclear-powered submarines did not become public until after the Soviet Union fell.
The gathering of intelligence about drug use is also improving, thanks in part to the BALCO case.
The Obama administration, Mr. Cordesman said, needs to use intelligence about the attack "as a key way of informing the world, of building up trust in U.S. policy and intelligence statements, and in moving U.S. strategic communications from spin to convincing truth".
This has left Americans (and the British and French) with an abiding scepticism about the use of intelligence and the purpose of intervention.
Military and intelligence agencies have refused to comment about the use of stealth aircraft in this raid.
The great lesson for me, with the benefit of hindsight, is not about the use of intelligence, but about the value of doubt.
And what was really important here was that a man, with a wife and family, took his own life because of the fallout from the row about the use of intelligence concerning WMDs.
"I think there is a totally legitimate debate to be had - and my experience speaking to people in the intelligence agencies is they recognise this - about the use of these new, incredibly powerful technologies," he said.
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