"The fact that you decided to take this job in no way is impugning your intelligence," Mr. Reid assured him.
Rabin signed off on the Entebbe plan only after intelligence agents assured him that aerial surveillance showed Ugandan soldiers guarding the terminal where the hostages were being held, indicating that the building was not booby-trapped.
Letta, as the supervising authority over Italy's intelligence services, assured the Ambassador of a continuation of our ROME 00000001 002.2 OF 003 already excellent bilateral cooperation on the issue.
In a separate interview, he said intelligence officials "assured" him the stories were inaccurate. .
Rarely, however, will you see such visual rigor, emotional intelligence and assured storytelling brought to a mystery tale told in this kind of world.
He criticized George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, for assuring the public that the C.I.A.'s efforts were keeping bin Laden's terrorists "off-balance".
During a Congressional hearing in 2007, Joseph DeTrani, one of the government's senior North Korea intelligence experts, said that the intelligence community was assured only at "midconfidence level" that the North Koreans were involved in a uranium enrichment program.
Previously, intelligence officials had assured the White House that no plutonium was being produced there.
He offered the capabilities of the Italian intelligence services and assured full sharing of information gathered on the internal dynamics in Tehran.
Mr. Clarke says he and intelligence experts repeatedly assured top officials -- and Mr. Bush himself -- that Iraq was not involved in 9/11 or in supporting Al Qaeda.
The continued failure of American forces to find any "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq must be worrying some officials, particularly at intelligence agencies that assured the White House that Baghdad had such weapons.
