In a few months, years of street intelligence was lost, along with the reassigned officers.
Senator Susan Collins, a Maine Republican, suggested — without any evidence — that vital intelligence was lost by that approach.
But, as Gordon Corera, the BBC's security correspondent noted this week, politicians are being cautious about overselling their level of certainty in the light of the 2003 Iraq war "when too much was based on too little hard information and all the caveats and cautions surrounding intelligence were lost".
Mr. Haver recalled that when Mr. Rumsfeld held a meeting to discuss what intelligence was lost after a Navy E-P3 surveillance plane made a crash landing in China after colliding with a Chinese fighter in April 2001, officials from 11 military intelligence offices crowded in.
There is no evidence that vital intelligence has been lost, or a terrorist attack allowed to happen, because a suspect was questioned lawfully.
I think so much intelligence information is lost because no one in Africa has the ability to understand what it is they have just seized.
The promise of artificial intelligence could be lost to humanity because people fear Terminator-style robots and other doomsday scenarios, an expert has warned.
"N.S.A. is confident that no significant intelligence information has been lost".
Unless we can demonstrate the willingness and ability to stop this kind of leak, those critical intelligence resources may be lost to us.
Stewart Baker, for example, a former senior official of the Department of Homeland Security, was quoted in the Financial Times of October 29 as contending that the European outrage may be merely "a tactical approach by people who are losing the intelligence battle with the U.S".
